Book of Collections on the Art of Preaching

CONVERSION of the atrocity onto ourselves or those joined to us, if we were subjected to similar fortune.

COMMISERATION is speech capturing the mercy of the auditor, which is moved by these places:

OF FORTUNE, if we show the stability and change of fortune, endured or to be endured even by those from whom it was least fitting, which will be an example to the auditor.

TOLERANCE of a great, lofty, and strong mind and one patient of inconveniences.
DEPLORATION of individual inconveniences, very briefly.
CONVERGENCE of a similar case to those who are listening or their dear friends.
HUMANITY communicated toward others.
COMMENDATION with joined prayers, obsecrations, and adjurations.

UTILITY by which all things are referred to the advantages of the Republic, its glory, and the example of the auditor and the memory of posterity.
CONFESSION, as if failing from grief, such as when I say, "But let there be an end, for I can no longer speak." Such actions also ought to have the shedding of tears, the clapping of hands, and the crossing of arms. This is especially fitting in the passion of the Lord and in the compassion of the blessed Virgin and other funeral sermons.

ON MEMORY

We treat this second part of the art in such a way that, having left behind natural memory, we speak in the present only about artificial memory.
Artificial memory, therefore, consists of places and images, just as writing consists of wax and letters.