Making Knowledge Visible: The Accademia Veneziana -- Federico Badoer and the Founding of the Accademia Veneziana -- The Editorial Program: The New Vernacular Literature and 'Ancient Knowledge' -- The Structure of the Visual Encyclopedia -- The Places of Knowledge: The Library and the Palazzo -- The Academy's Political Aspirations -- The Collapse of the Academy -- Trees of Knowledge and Rhetorical Machines -- The Easy Road to Knowledge or the Joy of Method -- The Tables of Sacred and Profane Rhetoric -- The Map of Possible Texts -- Orazio Toscanella: The Intellectual as Teacher and Publisher -- Against Pedants and in Support of the Vernacular and Useful, Helpful Books -- The Labyrinth of Words and the Order of the Library -- Rhetoric Machines -- The Art of Memory: Access to Rhetoric Machines -- Machines Used to Construct Sermons -- Memory Games -- The Game of Imitation -- The Metamorphosis of Writing: Calligraphy, Ciphers, and the Rebus -- Ciphered Codes and Images of Memory: The Model of the Machine and the Fascination with Secrets -- Games That Generate Texts -- Texts That Produce Games -- Body and Soul: The Nature of Images -- The Map of the Soul and Medicine for Memory -- The Power of Imagination and the Toil of Forgetting -- The Phantasmata of Eros and Images of Memory -- The Window Opening onto the Heart -- The Theatre of Passions between Memory, Rhetoric, and Physiognomy -- The Body and the Text -- How to Translate Words into Images: Memory and Invention -- The Memory of Images and Iconological Repertories.