Yates, Frances A.

Dame Frances Amelia Yates (1899-1981) was Reader in the History of the Renaissance at the University of London.She wasascholar of hermetic and occult philosophyin 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 herother books is"Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition", also published by thePress.