Simplephilos

F R A N C E S YATES

Selected Works

Volume III

The Art of Memory

London and New York

F R A N C E S YATES

Selected Works

VOLUME I

The Valois Tapestries

V O L U M E II

Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition

V O L U M E III

The Art of Memory

V O L U M E IV

The Rosicrucian Enlightenment

VOLUME V

Astraea

V O L U M E VI

Shakespeare's Last Plays

V O L U M E VII

The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age

V O L U M E VIII

Lull and Bruno

V O L U M E IX

Renaissance and Reform: The Italian Contribution

VOLUME X

Ideas and Ideals in the North European Renaissance

First published 1966 by Routledge & Kcgan Paul

Reprinted by Routledge 1999

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© 1966 Frances A. Yates

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quality of this reprint but points out that some imperfections

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10 Volumes: ISBN 0-415-22043-2 (Set)

Hermetic Silence. From Achilles Bocchius, Symbolicarum

quaestionum . . . libri quinque, Bologna, 1555. Engraved by G. Bonasone

(p. 170)

FRANCES A.YATES

THE ART OF MEMORY

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First published in 1966

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