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in 1978 [pic source]
often misspelled 'Francis' and/or 'Yeats'
1899: 28Nov: Frances Amelia Yates born in Southsea (London) (father a naval architect)
schools included Laurel Bank High School, Glasgow, and Birkenhead High School
1923? visits Italy via France [cite]
1924: 'external' degree in French from University College London
1925: article "English actors in Paris during the lifetime of Shakespeare" [info]
1926: MA in French theater from London University
1926-1939: some teaching at North London Collegiate School
no-date: small inheritance from father frees her to do independent study
no-date: discovers forgotten 1585 document in London Public Records Office in which French ambassador discusses John Florio [cite] pursues topic in British Museum Library
1927: article "Some new light on 'L'Ecossaise' of Antoine de Montchretien" [info]
1929: essay "John Florio at the French Embassy" [info]
1931: article "The importance of John Eliot's 'Ortho-epia Gallica'" [info]
1934: published John Florio: the Life of an Italian in Shakespeare's England
(FY considered that her research for this book laid the groundwork for the rest of her career: cite)
1936: published A Study of Love's Labour's Lost
1936: independent research at Warburg Institute [info] (range of collections led to new views: cite)
1937: article "Italian teachers in Elizabethan England" [info]
1938: article "Giordano Bruno's conflict with Oxford" [info]
c1940: ambulance attendant
1941: research assistant at the Warburg Institute, London
1942: essay "Shakespeare and the Platonic tradition" [info]
1943: article "An Italian in Restoration England: (Giovanni Torriano)" [info]
1944: full-time lecturer and editor of publications at Warburg
1944: article "Paolo Sarpi's 'History of the Council of Trent'" [info]
1945: essay "The emblematic conceit in Giordano Bruno's 'De gli eroici furori' and in the Elizabethan sonnet sequences" [info]
1947: article "Queen Elizabeth as Astreae" [info]
1947: published The French Academies of the Sixteenth Century
1950: essay "Le Warburg Institute et les etudes humanistes" [info]
1951: article "Antoine Caron's paintings for triumphal arches" [info]
1951: article "Giordano Bruno: some new documents" [info]
1951: article "Transformations of Dante's Ugolino" [info]
1952: booklet "Allegorical portraits of Queen Elizabeth I at Hatfield" [info]
1954: essay "The art of Ramon Lull" [info]
1954: article "Dramatic religious processions in Paris in the late 16th century" [info]
1954: essay "Poesie et musique dans les "Magnificences" au mariage du Duc de Joyeuse, Paris, 1581" [info]
1955: essay "The Ciceronian art of memory" [info]
1956-1967: reader in the history of the Renaissance at the Warburg Institute
1956: essay "Poetes et artistes dans les entrees de Charles IX et de sa reine à Paris en 1571" [info]
1956? article "Charles Quint et l'idee d'empire" [info]
1957: article "Elizabethan chivalry: the romance of the Accession Day tilts" [info]
1959: published The Valois Tapestries
1959: essay "Boissard's Costume-book and 2 portraits" [info]
1960: article "Ramon Lull and John Scotus Erigena" [info]
1960: essay "La teoría Luliana de los elementos" [info]
1962: essay "Religious history in the Valois tapestries" [info]
1963: essay "Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and magic" [info]
no-date: article "The religious policy of Giordano Bruno" [info]
1964: published Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition
1964: 19Nov: review "No Man's Land: Eight Philosophers of the Italian Renaissance by Paul Oskar Kristeller" [NYRB]
1965: 25Feb: review "The History of History: Machiavelli and Guicciardini by Felix Gilbert Maxims, and Reflections of a Renaissance Statesman by Francesco Guicciardini" [NYRB]
1965: D. Lit. from London University
1965: 01Jul: review "The Great Erasmus: The Colloquies of Erasmus translated by Craig R. Thompson" [NYRB]
1965: 23Dec: review "Renaissance Man: The Heroic Frenzies by Giordano Bruno" [NYRB]
1966: 03Mar: review "The Magic Christian: Agrippa and the Crisis of Renaissance Thought by Charles G. Nauert Jr., Renaissance and Revolution by Joseph Anthony Mazzeo" [NYRB]
1966: 26May: article "New Light on the Globe Theater" [NYRB] reply, ditto, summary, pic
(controversial argument that she'd found a picture of the Globe stage, apparently not accepted)
1966: published The Art of Memory
1966: review in Encounter "Foxe as propagandist: Foxe's Book of Martyrs. Ed. by GA Williamson" [info]
1967: 23Feb: reviews "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" [NYRB]
1967: 15Jun: review "Not a Machiavellian: Machiavelli by Giuseppe Prezzolini" [NYRB]
1967: retires from University of London
no-date: taught Roy Strong [passim]
1967: essay "The stage in Robert Fludd's memory system" [info] [debate]
1967: essay "The allegorical portraits of Sir John Luttrell" [info]
1967: Bruno article in Encyc. of Philosophy [cite] also Hermeticism [cite]
1967: 24Aug: review "Vicissitudes: The Life and Works of Louis Le Roy by Werner L. Gundersheimer" [NYRB]
1968: 29Feb: review "Bacon's Magic: Francis Bacon: From Magic to Science by Paolo Rossi" [NYRB]
1969: 27Mar: review "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" [NYRB]
1969: published Theatre of the World
1969: 09Oct: review "The Last Laugh: Rabelais and His World by Mikhail Bakhtin" [NYRB]
1970: 22Oct: review "The Old New History: The Idea of Perfect History by George Huppert" [NYRB]
1971: published The Rosicrucian Enlightenment
1972: awarded Order of the British Empire
1973: Wolfson History Award
1973: 25Jan: review "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" [NYRB]
1973: review "Science, medicine and society in the Renaissance: Essays to honor Walter Pagel. Ed. by Allen G. Debus" [info]
1973: 04Oct: review "Underground Routes: The Ancient Theology by D.P. Walker" [NYRB]
1974: 30May: review "Broken Images: The Reformation of Images: Destruction of Art in England, 1535-1660 by John Phillips" [NYRB]
1974: review "Paolo Sarpi: Istoria del concilio tridentino, seguita dalla Vita di Padre Paolo di Fulgenzio Micanzio, a cura di Corrado Vivanti" [info]
1975: published Astraea: The Imperial Theme in the Sixteenth Century
1975: published Shakespeare's Last Plays: A New Approach
1976: essay "Lodovico da Pirano's memory treatise" [info]
1976: 27May: review "Science, Salvation, and the Cabala: The Great Instauration: Science, Medicine, and Reform 1626-1660 by Charles Webster" [NYRB]
1976: 14Oct: review "The Mystery of Jean Bodin: Colloquium of the Seven about Secrets of the Sublime by Jean Bodin" [NYRB] debate
1977: published Elizabethan Neoplatonism Reconsidered
1977: declared Dame of the British Empire
1978: Galileo Prize
1978: Oct: tribute in Pisa, Italy [Italian] trans
1979: published The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age [quote]
1979: article in Encounter "Print culture: the Renaissance" [info]
1979: 22Nov: review "The fear of the occult: Symphorien Champier and the reception of the occultist tradition in Renaissance France by Brian P. Copenhaver" [NYRB]
1980: 21Feb: review "A Magical Critic: Form and Meaning: Essays on the Renaissance and Modern Art by Robert Klein" [NYRB]
1980: article "Architecture and the art of memory" [info]
1981: essay "Renaissance philosophers in Elizabethan England: John Dee and Giordano Bruno" [info]
1981: article "Chapman and Dürer on inspired melancholy" [info]
1981: article "Architectural themes" [info]
1981: 19Feb: review "In the Cards: The Game of Tarot from Ferrara to Salt Lake City by Michael Dummett, Twelve Tarot Games by Michael Dummett" [NYRB]
1981: honorary graduate of U of Warwick (DBE, OBE, MA, DLitt, FBA) [cite]
1981: 29Sep: died at home in Claygate (Surbiton) [NYRB]
papers left to the Warburg Institute
1981: 19Nov: review "An Alchemical Lear: The Chemical Theatre by Charles Nicholl" [NYRB]
1982: collected essays v1: Lull & Bruno
1983: collected essays v2: Renaissance and Reform: The Italian Contribution
1984: collected essays v3: Ideas and Ideals in the North European Renaissance
1989: thesis by Emma Molignoni "Il pensiero storiografico di Frances A. Yates: dalla magia alla scienza" [info]
1998: 08Mar: German conference [webpage]
1999? ten volume edition of selected works
2001: Sep: colloquium in Paris [passim]
Fellow of the British Academy, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Honorary Fellow of the Warburg Institute and of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
Sources: Macmillan, Penguin, Duke, short
Florio, an instructor of foreign languages at Oxford University, is best remembered for his translation of Montaigne, "which places him the front rank of the brilliant army of Tudor translators" [cite] friend of Marlowe, Shakespeare (who dedicated his Venus and Adonis to Florio), and Giordano Bruno
"It is my belief that Love's Labour's Lost took immediate inspiration from the Gray's Inn revels of 1594-5. It is very curious indeed to remember that the speeches of the Counsellors in Gesta Grayorum have been attributed to Francis Bacon, and if that attribution is correct, and if I am correct in hearing echoes of those speeches in Love's Labour's Lost, then the "civil war of wits" in that play may be, in one of its aspects, a reflection of some friendly crossing of swords between the two greatest wits of the age, Shakespeare and Bacon." [cite]
also explores relation of the play to Raleigh's "School of Night"
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crit: Young
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reviews: NYRB-Bronowski
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more: Bruno
"In the ancient world... the trained memory was of vital importance. And the ancient memories were trained by an art which reflected the art and architecture of the ancient world, which could depend on faculties of intense visual memorisation which we have lost."
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related titles by Spence and Carruthers
memory: intro, Camillo, Greer [ditto], history, topoi, hypertext?, quotes, GJohnson, techgnosis, ditto, Kubrick?
"Precise instructions for constructing a personal memory palace appear in three classical sources: Ad Herrennium (anonymous), Quintilian's Insitutio oratorio, and Cicero's De Oratorio"
reviews: NYRB (FY defends)
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reviews: NYRB
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reprinted by Shambala 1978 as "Majesty and Magic in Shakespeare's Last Plays: A New Approach to Cymbeline, Henry VIII, and The Tempest"
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more: Lull
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