Books by Frances A. Yates

John Florio is best known to the present day for his translation of Montaigne's Essays. To his contemporaries he was one of the most conspicuous figures of the literary and social cliques of the time. Frances Yates' 1934 text throws light upon the vexed question of his relations with Shakespeare.

In this 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 Greek orators, through the Middle Ages, to the occult forms it took in the Renaissance, and finally to its use in the 17th century.