ABSTRACT
The melancholy Philisides' place, role, and songs in Arcadia to some extent mirror the art, task, and disposition of Philip Sidney, so too Eumnestes' place, role, and devotion to his duties in the House of Alma mirror the artifice, endless work, and call to allegory of Edmund Spenser. The immortal scrine is, a mnemonic placeholder in the text, both in form and function; both as an enabling metaphor and textual corroboration of Spenser's chiastic call to allegory. Less philosophically and looking more at the way symbolic forms historically have given shape to allegories that contend with death, something more-with a chiastic character-is to be observed in the back and forth motion mirroring the task of Anamnestes. The figure of Eumnestes, old Memory, embodies the workings of memory, no less than those of allegory. Indeed, his activities allegorize the process of memory even while liberating it through vivid physical objects and mnemonic images.
