engramma the Classical Tradition in Western Memory English version La Rivista di engramma 36, October 2004 Hesperides Manet’s nymph: formal derivations and thematic inspiration (Seminary Group of The Classical Tradition) By comparing the figure of the nymph in Manet’s Dejeuneur sur l’herbe with her Renaissance iconographic models, and those of Antiquity that preceded them (the Patera of Parabiago), the montage of the plate proposes a reconstruction of the chain that leads from Raffaello, via Marcantonio Raimondi (or via Giorgione/Castagnola) to Manet’s work. Essays The impertinent nymph: Victorine and the patera of Parabiago. (Concerning models for Manet’s Dejeuneur sur l’herbe, via Raffaello) (Monica Centanni) In the essay concerning the iconographic models for Manet’s Dejeuner sur l’erbe and in Plate 55 of Bilderatlas that has the same theme as its subject, Warburg presents Manet’s work as the final result of a process of transmission that begins with the Renaissance revival of Hellenistic sarcophagi: in this process an important role is carried out by a ‘mediating text’ ­ an engraving by Marcantanio Raimondi of a piece by Rafaello (now lost). Starting with Warburg’s research, Monica Centanni proposes an identification of new models for both Manet’s painting and the lost work of Raffaello. Via iconographic and documentary comparisons that link the works, the essay reconstructs on the one hand the role of a further possible ‘mediating text’ for Manet, a fresco by Giorgione that can be seen in a palace in Castelfranco Veneto. On the other, the essay belies Warburg’s theory that the nymph’s gaze is entirely of Raffaello’s invention, and suggests a possible ancient typological model from which the Renaissance artist could have drawn his figures ­ the iconographic scheme of the group ‘River and Nymph’ in the so-called Patera of Parabiago. P&M Classical evasions: Antiquity as reference In the publicity image for a brand of ceramic products, the inclusion of a Greek vase with an ‘animated’ figure performs many functions: it attracts the attention of the public, it gives the product the added value of preciosity, and ennobles the producer’s image with the auctoritas of the classical. News The Panathenaics of the Third Millennium (Lorenzo Bonoldi) The inauguration ceremony of the Olympic Games in Athens 2004 The black soul of the Renaissance (Alessandra Pedersoli, Paolo Tonin, Luca Tonin) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci code,  Doubleday, 2003 Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason, The rule of four, Dial Press, 2004 Snapshots of Antiquity (Monica Zanettin) "Il riuso dell’antico", Rome, Antiche Olearie Papali, 24 June-15 October 2004 Metropolitan diary (or in other words: the philosopher and the city) (Monica Centanni)Siegfried Kracauer, Strade di Berlino e altrove, ed. by Daniele Pisani, Edizioni Pendragon, Bologna 2004 In Hestia’s temple (Daniela Sacco) James Hillman, L’anima dei luoghi, conversation with Carlo Truppi, Rizzoli, Milano 2004