Peter of Ravenna

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

According to Frances Yates, it was quickly adopted by Gregor Reisch, and mentioned a little later by Johannes Romberch.

[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.

[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.