El tratamiento de la memoria local en algunos manuales de Ianuae linguarum del siglo XVII

Abstract

In 1611 a new manual for the teaching of Latin was published in Salamanca, the Ianua linguarum siue modus maxime accommodatus quo patefit aditus ad omnes linguas intelligendas, which was to enjoy great success in Europe during the 17^th and 18^th centuries, as demonstrated by the appearance of another 30 editions in different languages and countries.

It based the learning of Latin on the memorisation of short sentences, for which it advocated the use of local memory. Our aim is to study the place occupied by this technique, this ars memoratiua, in several significant 17^th century editions of the Ianuae linguarum.