Dame Frances Amelia Yates (1899-1981) was Reader in the History of the Renaissance at the University of London.�She was�a�scholar of hermetic and occult philosophy�in the Renaissance.�Her book The Art of Memory, published by the University of Chicago Press,�has been named one of the most significant non-fiction books of the 20th century. Among her�other books is�Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition, also published by the�Press.