Frances A. Yates
Dame Frances Amelia Yates (1899-1981) was Reader in the History of the Renaissance at the University of London. She was a scholar of hermetic and occult philosophy in the Renaissance. Her book The Art of Memory, published by the University of Chicago Press, has been named one of the most significant non-fiction books of the 20th century. Among her other books is Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition , also published by the Press.
Dame Frances Amelia Yates (1899-1981) was Reader in the History of the Renaissance at the University of London. She was a scholar of hermetic and occult philosophy in the Renaissance. Her book The Art of Memory, published by the University of Chicago Press, has been named one of the most significant non-fiction books of the 20th century. Among her other books is Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition , also published by the Press. See less
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The Art of Memory
classic
by serenimo, Sep 10, 2009
This book is a classic, and unreplaced by any of the subsequent works on memory treatises. Particularly productively provocative are the comments on contemporaneous art and literature, and how the ... Read More