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Rivista di engramma 43, September 2005 |
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Essays
Antonella Sbrilli
Lolita's florentine hands. Warburgian coincidences in
Nabokov (and vice versa)
Lolita, the main character in the novel with the same title
by Vladimir Nabokov (published in 1955), can be considered as
a modern incarnation of the "Nymph", the maiden that
appears divine and fatale to a man, bringing him out of boundaries
in an hazardous journey.
The motive of the "Nymph" recalls the project of an
epistolary novel that involved at the beginning of C20th Warburg
and his dutch friend Andrè Jolles, regarding the so-called
"Nymph" in Ghilandaio's florentine frescoes.
This motive leads to reckon that other affinities between Warburg's
and Nabokov's intellectual and psychological experience are
likely (Nabokov perhaps knew Warburg's name through Panofsky's
american lectures): from the main theme of the 'demonic' Nymph,
to the moulding force of Memory (Mnemosyne) in life and in creative
experience, to the scientific and poetic fascination for butterflies;
from the observation of details as key-codes to the world, to
the composition technique in their works, that issues a non-consequential
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Aranea
Aranea. On-line sources: a new section
in Engramma
(Redazione di Engramma ed.)
This new section in the Rivista di Engramma reports
websites where one can find greek and latin sources, and other
texts (either medieval, reinassance or contemporary) and image
inventories useful for humanistic studies.
Each site is reviewed by an overall evaluation and a detailed
report schedule.
This month the site reviewed (Elisa Bastianello and Federica
Pellati eds.) is http://www.bivionline.it/
a virtual library that presents rare reinassance texts with
hypertextual indexes. |
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News
- The
architect's dream
Horst Bredekamp, La fabbrica di San Pietro. Il principio
della distruzione produttiva, Einaudi, Torino 2005
(Daniele Pisani)
- Iraq's
antiquities plundered: history and stories
Frederick Mario Fales, Saccheggio in Mesopotamia. Il museo
di Baghdad dalla nascita dell'Iraq a oggi, Forum Editrice
Universitaria Udinese, Udine 2004
(Claudia Daniotti, Marta Bisello)
- The
"Statuario pubblico" in Venice: the catalogue
Il Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Venezia, a cura
di Irene Favaretto, Marcella De Paoli e Maria Cristina Dossi,
Electa, Milano 2005
(Claudia Daniotti) |
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