Frances Amelia Yates

This was Dame Yates' last book, and it condenses many aspects of her wide learning to present a clear, penetrating and accessible survey of the occult movements of the Renaissance, highlighting the work of John Dee, Ramon Llull, and other key figures.

The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition

"The book is primarily centered on John Dee and Robert Fludd" - Preface.

Theatre of the World

Placing Bruno--both advanced philosopher and magician burned at the stake--in the Hermetic tradition, Yates's acclaimed study gives an overview not only of Renaissance humanism but of its interplay--and conflict--with magic and occult practices. "Among those who have explored the intellectual world of the sixteenth century no one in England can rival Miss Yates. Wherever she looks, she illuminates. Now she has looked on Bruno. This brilliant book takes time to digest, but it is an intellectual adventure to read it. Historians of ideas, of religion, and of science will study it. Some of them, after reading it, will have to think again. . . . For Miss Yates has put Bruno, for the first time, in his tradition, and has shown what that tradition was."--Hugh Trevor-Roper, New Statesman "A decisive contribution to the understanding of Giordano Bruno, this book will probably remove a great number of misrepresentations that still plague the tormented figure of the Nolan prophet."--Giorgio de Santillana, American Historical Review "Yates's book is an important addition to our knowledge of Giordano Bruno. But it is even more important, I think, as a step toward understanding the unity of the sixteenth century."--J. Bronowski, New York Review of Books

L'arte della memoria

Available as a single volume or part of the 10 volume set "Frances Yeats: Selected Works"

Astraea

In this classic study of how people learned to retain vast stores of knowledge before the invention of the printed page, Frances A. Yates traces the art of memory from its treatment by Greek orators, through its Gothic transformations in the Middle Ages, to the occult forms it took in the Renaissance, and finally to its use in the seventeenth century. This book, the first to relate the art of memory to the history of culture as a whole, was revolutionary when it first appeared and continues to mesmerize readers with its lucid and revelatory insights.

The Art of Memory

The Life of an Italian in Shakespeare's England

John Florio

Emphasizing the primary importance of Hermetism in Renaissance thought, Yates demonstrates that Bruno was at once a rational philosopher and a magician--burned at the stake--with an orthodox religious message. Her acclaimed study gives an overview not only of Renaissance humanism but its interplay--and conflict--with magic and occult practices.--book cover.

The Valois Tapestries

The Italian Contribution

Renaissance and Reform

Selected works. 10. Ideas and ideals in the North European Renaissance

Available as a single volume or part of the 10 volume set "Frances Yeats: Selected Works."

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