Collected essays of Frances A. Yates [two volumes]

Yates, Frances A. (Frances Amelia) (1899-1981)

1982, First Edition. London : Routledge & Kegan Paul. Fine cloth copies both in near fine, slightly edge-dulled dust wrappers. Remains a well-preserved set overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #459490

Physical description: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Contents: Vol. I, Lull & Bruno (pub. 1982 ; ISBN 0710009526 ) : Essays on the art of Ramon Lull: 1. The art of Ramon Lull: An approach to it through Lull's theory of the elements -- 2. Ramon Lull and John Scotus Erigena. Essays on Giordano Bruno in England: 3. Giordano Bruno's conflict with Oxford -- 4. The religious policy of Giordano Bruno -- 5. The emblematic conceit in Giordano Bruno's "De gli eroici furori" and in the Elizabethan sonnet sequences -- 6. Renaissance philosophers in Elizabethan England: John Dee and Giordano Bruno. Vol. II, Renaissance and reform : the Italian contribution (pub. 1983 ; ISBN 0710095309 ) : 1. Speech on the acceptance of the Premio Galileo Galilei, Pisa (1978) -- 2. The Italian academies (1949) -- 3. Transformations of Dante's Ugolino (1951) -- 4. Lodovico da Pirano's memory treatise (1976) -- 5. No man's land -- 6. Lull and Lullism -- 7. Flavius Mithridates -- 8. The history of history -- 9. Not a Machiavellian -- 10. Giordano Bruno biography (1967) ; Giordano Bruno: some new documents (1951) ; Bruno and Campanella on the French monarchy (1954) ; Bruno in Italian ; Bruno in English -- 11. Shakespeare and the Platonic tradition (1942) -- 12. Italian teachers in England: John Florio's father ; Italian teachers in Elizabethan England (1937-8) ; An Italian in Restoration England (1943) -- 13. Paolo Sarpi: Paolo Sarpi's History of the Council of Trent (1944) ; A new edition of Paolo Sarpi. Subjects: Yates, Frances A. (Frances Amelia), 1899-1981. Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316. Bruno, Giordano, 1548-1600. Philosophy, Renaissance. Renaissance - Italy. Italy - Civilization - 1268-1559. Italy - Civilization - 1559-1789. Great Britain - Civilization - Italian influences. Occultism - History - 16th century. Hermetism. Memory (Philosophy) - History. Academies, Italian - History - 16th century. English literature - Italian influences. Italian literature - History and criticism.

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