Staging the Emotions in Giulio Camillo’s Theatre: Syncretism, Embodied Cognition and the Arts of Memory

  • Carlos Iglesias-Crespo University of Cambridge
Palavras-chave: Giulio Camillo, Cabala, artes da memória, emoção, cognição incorporada, imagines agentes

Resumo

Este artigo examina um aspeto muito negligenciado da obra de Giulio Camillo: o papel das emoções e sua simbolização sistemática através da imagem dos pés em L'Idea del Theatro (1550) e De l'humana deificatione (c. 1542). Uma dupla hipótese é sugerida: por um lado, a associação negativa dos pés feita por Camillo com as emoções decorre de sua leitura sincrética da Cabala e da teologia cristã; por outro lado, essa mistura conceitual é sustentada pela dinâmica cognitiva incorporada intrínseca às imagines agentes das artes da memória, na tradição da Rhetorica ad Herennium.

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2022-06-23