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Frances A. Yates (1899–1981) was an English historian. She taught for many years at The Warburg Institute, where she studied the history of esotericism in the West.
In the Cards
The Game of Tarot from Ferrara to Salt Lake City
by Michael Dummett
Twelve Tarot Games
by Michael Dummett
February 19, 1981 issue
A Magical Critic
Form and Meaning: Essays on the Renaissance and Modern Art
by Robert Klein, translated by Madeline Jay and Leon Wieseltier, with a foreword by Henri Zerner
February 21, 1980 issue
The Fear of the Occult
Symphorien Champier and the Reception of the Occultist Tradition in Renaissance France (Berlin/New York)
by Brian P. Copenhaver
November 22, 1979 issue
The Mystery of Jean Bodin
Colloquium of the Seven about Secrets of the Sublime (Colloquium Heptaplomeres de Rerum Sublimium Arcanis Abditis) annotations, and critical readings by
by Jean Bodin, translated with an introduction, Marion Leathers Daniels Kuntz
October 14, 1976 issue
Science, Salvation, and the Cabala
The Great Instauration: Science, Medicine, and Reform 1626-1660
by Charles Webster
May 27, 1976 issue
Broken Images
The Reformation of Images: Destruction of Art in England, 1535-1660
by John Phillips
May 30, 1974 issue
A Great Magus
John Dee: The World of an Elizabethan Magus
by Peter J. French
"John Dee e il suo sapere"
by Furio Jesi
The Occult Sciences in the Renaissance: A Study in Intellectual Patterns
by Wayne Shumaker
January 25, 1973 issue
The Last Laugh
Rabelais and His World
by Mikhail Bakhtin, translated by Helene Iswolsky
October 9, 1969 issue
Bacon and the Menace of English Lit
Francis Bacon and Renaissance Prose
by Brian Vickers
The Eloquent "I": Style and Self in Seventeenth-Century Prose
by Joan Webber
March 27, 1969 issue
Bacon’s Magic
Francis Bacon: From Magic to Science
by Paolo Rossi, Translated from the Italian by Sacha Rabinovitch
February 29, 1968 issue
Not a Machiavellian
Machiavelli
by Giuseppe Prezzolini, translated by Gioconda Savini
June 15, 1967 issue
Paradox and Paradise
The Race of Time
by Herschel Baker
Paradoxia Epidemica: The Renaissance Tradition of Paradox
by Rosalie L. Colie
The Earthly Paradise and the Renaissance Epic
by A. Bartlett Giamatti
February 23, 1967 issue
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