Placing Brunoâ€”both advanced philosopher and magician burned at the stakeâ€”in the Hermetic tradition, Yates's acclaimed study gives an overview not only of Renaissance humanism but of its interplayâ€”and conflictâ€”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 book takes time to digest, but it is an intellectual adventure to read it. Historians of ideas, of religion, and of science will study it. Some of them, after reading it, will have to think again. . . . For Miss Yates has put Bruno, for the first time, in his tradition, and has shown what that tradition was."â€”Hugh Trevor-Roper, New Statesman "A decisive contribution to the understanding of Giordano Bruno, this book will probably remove a great number of misrepresentations that still plague the tormented figure of the Nolan prophet."â€”Giorgio de Santillana, American Historical Review "Yates's book is an important addition to our knowledge of Giordano Bruno. But it is even more important, I think, as a step toward understanding the unity of the sixteenth century."â€”J. Bronowski, New York Review of Books

Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic tradition

Yates, Frances-Amelia

History

University of Chicago Press

Originally published in 1969, Theatre of the World is the third book in a series, extending and refining arguments put forth in Frances Yates’s masterworks Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (1964) and The Art of Memory (1966). Here, Yates explores the influence of Vitruvius’s works in late Tudor and Jacobean England, particularly in their relation to Renaissance philosophy and outlook. The book centers on John Dee and Robert Fludd, with special reference to evidence in their works of Vitruvian ideas. Yates discusses the Renaissance revival of the classical author and examines the English public theater as one of the products of the Vitruvian movement. She suggests that the London public theatres, including the Globe, were an adaptation of the ancient theatre as described by Vitruvius; that is, a theatre with cosmological proportions. From this daring vantage point, it is possible to situate Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre within the context of great European movements, as the expression of a Renaissance outlook on man and the universe. Though no attempt is made to reconstruct the Globe Theatre, fresh approaches to the problems of its ground plan and its stage are outlined. Above all, it is the “idea of the Globe,” the meaning of the theatre, which Yates seeks to interpret by placing it in new contexts. As she does in all her writings, Yates illuminates, deepens, and broadens our understanding of the currents and undercurrents of Renaissance thought. Praise for the author “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. —Hugh Trevor-Roper, The New Statesman

Theatre of the World

Europe

The Rosicrucian Enlightenment

Science & Math

Routledge

Lull and Bruno: Collected Essays, Volume 1

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Routledge& Kegan Paul

First published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Shakespeare's Last Plays: A New Approach

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Available as a single volume or part of the 10 volume set "Frances Yeats: Selected Works"

The Valois Tapestries

Arts & Photography

Ideas and Ideals in the North European Renaissance: Collected Essays

Describes the beliefs and images connected with the Christian Cabala and general occult philosophy during Queen Elizabeth I's reign, and discusses their influence on Elizabethan painting and poetry

The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age

Ark Paperbacks

Giordano Bruno et la tradition hermétique

Religion & Spirituality

Occult & Paranormal

DERVY

Investigación escrita en torno a un tema de innegable atractivo: la tradición cabalística y su influencia en el pensamiento y el arte de la Inglaterra isabelina. Los textos van recorriendo la escena europea y descubriendo las piezas maestras de un mecanismo intelectual que determinó diversas creaciones y tendencias a lo largo de varios siglos en la vida del viejo continente.

La filosofía oculta en la época isabelina (Spanish Edition)

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