Elisabetta Fadda, Tra logica, tecnica e responsabilità: mondo dei dotti e bottega dell'artista a Parma nel Cinquecento.

The social extraction of the artists in Parma at the time of Antonio Allegri known as Correggio (1489 – 1534) and Francesco Maz- zola known as Parmigianino (1503 – 1540) is still that of those who practiced a minor, mechanical art, but it is clear in the works of these artists the reflection of a more cultured thought, although the result of an intellectual preparation aimed at practical technique. Although they were minor members, we know that the painters in Florence after 1295 had entered the guild of doctors and apothecaries. In the 16th century, in Parma, we find both doctors and masters of logic documented alongside artists: the analysis of the theoretical teaching of the latter and the re- flection of their teaching method, based on the art of memory and play, constitutes the subject of investigation in the following pages.