Frances A. Yates

Thinkers1899 to 1981Renaissance historian

Works

  • The Art of Memory, 1966

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Known for

A historian at the Warburg Institute whose The Art of Memory traced the classical memory palace, placing images of things to be remembered in imagined places, from Simonides and the Roman rhetoricians through the Renaissance. She wrote its history; the technique is ancient.

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