Volume 10, Number 4 · February 29, 1968
Bacon's Magic
By Frances A. Yates
Francis Bacon: From Magic to Science
by Paolo Rossi, Translated from the Italian by Sacha Rabinovitch
Routledge & Kegan Paul, 280 pp., £2-2-0
It is now more than ten years since Paolo Rossi's book on Bacon was published in Italy. Those who have known this book have been aware that it made, for the first time, the right historical approach to Bacon. Now that it is at last available in translation, it makes an important contribution to Bacon studies in the English-speaking world, even though since its first publication in 1957 there have been movements in the history of thought which will make some of its themes seem less revolutionary and surprising than they did when the book first appeared.
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