engramma the Classical Tradition in Western Memory

  
English version La Rivista di engramma 32, April 2004


  • "Antithetical expression" in Aby Warburg: the semantic polarity of gesture in formulas of pathos and Renaissance art
    (Giulia Bordignon)
    In 1888 Warburg read Charles Darwin's The expression of Emotions in Man and Animals. The scientific principle of “antithetical expression” contained in the text would in due course be applied by Warburg to certain formulas of Pathos re-emerging in Renaissance art: according to Warburg the ancient formulas of pathos underwent a process of inversion by which the same bodily posture could express extremes of opposite emotions
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    Mnemosyne Plates

    Plate A
    Orientation: cosmology, geography, genealogy
    (ed. by editorial committee of Engramma)
    Essays

    In aranea – Greek and Latin sources on the web
    (ed. by Giacomo Dalla Pietà and Alessandra Pedersoli)
    The critical recognition of the most authoritative sites in Latin to be found on the Web, begun with the publication of Latinantes per orbem parlantes in No. 29 of Engramma, continues with a more detailed indication of sites for the study of classical antiquity that are useful for finding original texts, in Latin and Greek, and translations. In due course more detailed information will be given on sites on individual classical authors

    News

  • From emotional impulse to sublime execution: the genius of Antonio Canova
    Canova, Bassano del Grappa, Museo Civico, Possagno: Gipsoteca canoviana, 22 November -12 April 2004
    (Laura Cavallo)
  • Minutes of the conference on Aby Warburg, Siena 1999
    Aby Warburg's iItalian copybooks
    (Katia Mazzucco)
  • The return of Rutilio Namaziano: a cinematographic pretext
    De reditu    , directed byClaudio Bondì, Italia 2004
    (Giacomo Dalla Pietà)
  • Leon Battista Alberti
    Conference in Genova to celebrate the sixth centenary of his birth
    Genova, Palazzo Ducale, La vita e il mondo di Leon Battista Alberti, convegno internazionale, 19-21 febbraio 2004
    (Daniele Pisani)
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    P&M

    An emblem of three rings - from the inventiveness of the Renaissance to a balsamic vinegar made in Modena
    (Federica Pellati)
    A thematic study of the comparison (presented in P&M of the previous edition) between a Renaissance emblem that adorns the walls of the "Hall of Rings" in the Castle of Vignola, and the logo of a producer of balsamic vinegar based in the same city