Peter of Ravenna

He was attacked by Jacob van Hoogstraaten, in a legal controversy over the bodies of hanged criminals.

[8] The book offers a great deal of self-promotion by the author, who claims in it to have had a prodigious memory when young, able to memorise the whole civil law code at age ten.

[9] His actual system has been analysed as based on alphabetical keys, and what amounts to a topical concordance.

[10] Robert Copland published a popular English translation, An Art of Memory That Otherwise Is Called the Phoenix, around 1548.

[11] The Phoenix was still in print in the seventeenth century in England, and was referred to by Robert Burton in his Anatomy of Melancholy.