La memoria creativa

This book deals about the links of the ancient art of rethoric and art and architecture during Renaissance and Baroque periods. It was very new at that time (1984) because only few had written about important philosophers as Athanasius Kircher - who also worked with Bernini at the restauration of the obelisks of Rome - and made interesting reconstructions of "historical" buildings such as the Tower and the Gardens of Babilonia and the "Arca Noe'" or Robert Fludd. Raynaldo Perugini has also written with the same architectural point of view - he teaches history of architectureat the university of Rome - about Salomon de Caus and the Hortus Palatinus in Heidelberg and also about John Dee and Euclides.