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Cittadini of Venice
Weaving together archival sources, material culture and the visual arts, this book sheds new light on how the cittadini or middling sorts constructed and shaped their identity through social networks and artistic patronage in early modern Venice.
Under the Volcano. Warburg’s Legacy
Under the Volcano. Warburg’s Legacy, explores the enduring influence of Aby Warburg’s ideas, likening his intellectual legacy to volcanic activity–continually shaping the landscape of cultural history. If Warburg “was a volcano”, this issue is structured around the metaphorical fissures and lava flows, and is divided into four sections: Unpublished, Rediscovery, Readings, Presentation.
Cittadini of Venice
In this volume Giulia Zanon sheds new light on our grasp of social hierarchy and the possibilities for social mobility in pre-modern Italy. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach that combines deep archival research with a multitude of artistic and architectural artefacts, this work breaks new ground by contextualizing the part played by social relationships and the arts in publicly affirming and displaying the prestige of the middling sorts, the cittadini, in early modern Venice.
191 | Aby Warburg: His Aims and Methods
In this issue of Engramma: Giulia Zanon’s Zooming Mnemosyne deals with the use of details in Warburg’s Bilderatlas, Monica Centanni’s Collateral effects of the “visibile parlare” (Dante, Pg. X, v. 95) reconstructs the hypothesis of a visual model for the legend of Trajan’s Justice, according to Warburg intuition about it; this contribution is connected of the paper by Filippo Perfetti’s Dante, Botticelli, and Trajan. An Open Note where the author investigates how Botticelli could have come to know that the bas-relief of the Arch of Constantine liberatori urbis was related to an episode in Trajan's life”. The focus of this issue is then extended to Warburg's cultural environme...
Archaeology & Pilgrimage
Engramma 204 collects researches and findings of several Italian and European scholars who have dealt with aspects related to ancient, Medieval and Modern pilgrimage along the main three European Routes (Via Romea Francigena, Via Romea Strata, Via Romea Germanica), or along other routes to the Holy Land. The issue is divided into three sections. The first one is dedicated to the European project rurAllure by Martín López Nores, José Juan Pazos Arias, Susana Reboreda Morillo, Óscar Penín Romero, which focuses on the enhancement of minor sites along the pilgrimage routes of Europe, and it is accompanied by an overview on the development of promotional activities for some Italian cases sup...
Warburg and Living Thought
Aby Warburg, the founder of a new Science of Culture, the scholar who gave back word to the image; a “militant” intellectual (so wrote Gertrud Bing), for whom no distinction exists between life and thought; pioneer of new research methods, inventing ‘machines’ of knowledge; architect of spaces designed as arenas of thought. The Library for the Science of Culture (transferred from Hamburg to London in 1933) and the Mnemosyne Atlas are the achievements to which the most substantial part of his heritage is linked. The ten essays here collected for the first time, all stemming from the Italian cultural milieu, trace with clarity Warburg’s “living thought”. Giorgio Pasquali, Mario P...
Anglophobia in Fascist Italy
This book is freely available in digital formats thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Anglophobia in Fascist Italy traces the origins and development of anti-British sentiment in Fascist Italy, as Britain turned from being an ally in the First World War to an enemy in the Second. The book demonstrates that Fascist ideologues framed Britain as a stagnant and decaying country and the polar opposite of Fascism’s new civilisation, to the point that the regime’s assessment of British political resolve and military might were distorted by ideological bias. The book offers a thorough analysis of diplomatic, military and journalistic sources and demonstrates that anti-British tropes had permeated Italy to a greater degree than was previously believed.
Filologia delle immagini
Engrammano. 195, “Filologia delle immagini”, edited by Maddalena Bassani, Concetta Cataldo, and Roberto Indovina, is a reflection on the iconography of myth and its re-elaboration on figured ceramics through the textual mediation of theatre. The essays here included explore the relationship between texts and images. The contributions byConcetta Cataldo,Antonio Maria DraiàandMiriam Sabatucciare linked to the theme of “Pots & Plays” and accordingly analyze the interactions between Greek theatrical texts and vase painting of the fifth and the fourth centuries BC.Mariagrazia Ciani presents a review of Francesca Ghedini’s volume dedicated to history through images in the ancient world. We also include an interview with the actresses of the 2022theatrical season and an update of thelist of classic dramas performed by the Istituto Nazionale del Dramma Antico(INDA – National Institute of Ancient Drama) from 1914 to 2022 in Syracuse. Finally, a presentation of the exhibition“Argilla. Storie di viaggi. Un itinerario scientifico e didattico fra mari e millenni”, in Vicenza.
Festa! 1
8 Marzo 2023: “La Rivista di Engramma” festeggia il suo ventitreesimo compleanno pubblicando il suo duecentesimo volume. Nella tradizione iniziata con il numero 100 (ottobre 2012) e proseguita con il numero 150 (ottobre 2017), abbiamo invitato tutti gli autori che hanno collaborato, dal 2000 a oggi, a scrivere un pezzo sul tema “Festa!”.
