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I’m revising for some exams, and I’m trying to use the Memory Palace method, which interestingly I first heard about in connection with Matteo Ricci, a sixteenth-century Jesuit who travelled to China. He would use the memory palace to perform feats of memory, such as remembering 300 Chinese symbols that he had never seen before in sequence. This, and much else of his fascinating life are documented in Jonathan D. Spence’s The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci.