“Imaginative Logic”: The Role of Images in Bruno’s Arts of Invention

In this paper, I examine a number of exercises of invention in which images play a role, in an attempt to find out whether the function of the images within these exercises has any connection with the cognitive value of the different types of invention, and whether it can offer any indication about their position within Bruno’s art. I try to show that all these exercises correspond to different phases in Bruno’s project of improving the model of invention derived from the Lullist art by giving images a more important role in the various forms of information processing.

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