Lull’s Art: The brevitas as a Way to General Knowledge

• Autores: Coralba Colomba
• Localización: Knowledge, contemplation and Lullism: contributions to the Lullian session at the SIEPM congress - Freising, August 20-25, 2012 / coord. por José Higuera Rubio, 2015, ISBN 978-2-503-54853-1, págs. 3-16
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The stylistic way of the brevity was a mainstream in the Middle Ages (above all in the twelfth century) both in prose and poetry, hagiographic and theological literature, and it will play a fundamental role in developing the art of memory during the Renaissance. Under this topic, Lull creates “textbooks” in which he explains the most difficult points of the Artistic mechanism, summarises its fundamental elements and gives precise suggestions to the master/Artist on the teaching method, and to the aspiring Artists on how to practice the Ars. Thus brevitas has also an epistemological value. The validity of Artistic reasoning is strongly linked to the correct functioning of the mechanism which rules it (i.e. the combinatory). In this sense Lull’s brevitas tries to communicate the greatest amount of knowledge within the shortest possible way.