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De mysterieuze Rozenkruisersmanifesten waren esoterische documenten die aan het begin van de 17e eeuw in Duitsland werden gepubliceerd. Frances Yates benadert deze werken in De verlichting van het rozenkruis op een hoogst originele wijze en brengt het occultisme en de opkomst van de moderne wetenschap met elkaar in verband. Zij geeft in dit boek een briljante analyse van het intellectuele leven van de renaissance. Ook laat zij zien hoe de Roze...
In questo suo ultimo lavoro Frances Yates, compie un tentativo di esplorare alcuni punti chiave della cultura religiosa, letteraria, politica tra Quattrocento e Seicento. Ne risulta un'indagine che, attraverso credenze, filosofie, pratiche magiche, liturgie segrete, sa iniziare il lettore a un capitolo affascinante quanto complesso della storia delle idee rinascimentali e secentesche. L'autrice traccia per grandi linee la storia della filosofi...
Un testo che restituisce a tutto tondo la figura di Giordano Bruno, uno dei più importanti filosofi italiani, divenuto il simbolo del libero pensiero per gli illuministi, della volontà antiintellettualistica per i romantici, dell'anticlericalismo per i laici del Novecento. Frances A. Yates - scrive Cesare Vasoli - colloca il filosofo in "una prospettiva storiografica veramente nuova, nella quale molti aspetti e motivi della drammatica vicenda ...
No one has done more than she to recreate, from unexpected material, the intellectual life of past ages. It is DrYates's great achievement to identify the ideas and, by delicate scholarship and profound study of symbolism, to provide them with a pedigree and a home. A brilliant and exciting book." -- Hugh Trevor-Roper, " The Sunday Times
In 1600, renagade philosopher and theologian Giordano Bruno was burnt at the stake in Rome. His crime was to preach a doctrine of brotherhood, peace and free love. Four centuries later he is known as the Prophet of the New Age.
It is hard to overestimate the importance of the contribution made by Dame Frances Yates to the serious study of esotericism and the occult sciences. To her work can be attributed the contemporary understanding of the occult origins of much of Western scientific thinking, indeed of Western civilization itself. The Occult Philosophy of the Elizabethan Age was her last book, and in it she condensed many aspects of her wide learning to present a ...
Dame Frances Yates achieved a world-wide reputation as an historian. She was Reader in the History of the Renaissance at the Warburg Institute of the University of London and gained many academic honours. In 1972 she was appointed OBE and in 1977 DBE. Her publications include , , , and . Frances Yates died in 1981.
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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 fi...
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 b...
