A Companion to Warburgian Studies. Engramma 199, Editorial

This issue of Engramma is intended as an update of the overview of studies dedicated to Warburg in the world: an important work of reconnaissance inaugurated with Engramma 165, Warburgian Studies. The issue brings together contributions from different scholars, sharing a common vision of Warburg and his thought. A Companion to Warburgian Studies is divided into three parts: I. Essays; II. Overviews; III. Presentations and Reviews. I. Essays. Daniela Sacco in her Forma Atlante e storiografia teatrale offers us a reflection on the possibility of considering the ‘atlas form’, deduced from the thought of Aby Warburg, as a model for investigating the methodology of twentieth-century theatrical historiography, and in particular in the pioneering studies opened by Ludovico Zorzi and Fabrizio Cruciani. Arturo Mazzarella, Aby Warburg. Per una genealogia del Rinascimento aims to highlight the profound innovations made by Warburg, compared to the most widespread interpretations of Renaissance artistic culture. Raoul Kirchmayr, Per una semantica del Nach. Osservazioni di metodo su Warburg, Freud e Benjamin analyses the semantics of the term Nachleben, which expresses the unique relationship between image and time in three authors that the history of scholarship has often juxtaposed: Warburg, Benjamin and Freud. The point of reference from which the reflection starts is the interest of all three in the epistemological status of images in relation to their historicity. Alessandro Dal Lago, Voce dall’Enciclopedia Garzanti di Filosofia, a cura di G. Vattimo, M. Ferraris, D. Marconi, Milano [1981] 1993 rejects the definition of Warburg as an art historian, pointing out how he extends his research to Anthropology, History of Religions, and Science of Culture. Chiara Velicogna, “A small academy in a small town”. Anglo-italian scholarship on the Teatro Olimpico in the immediate post-war period approaches two early post-war pieces of scholarship concerning the Teatro Olimpico: Donald Gordon’s Academicians Build a Theatre and Give a Play (1966) and Licisco Magagnato’s The Genesis of the Teatro Olimpico (1951). II. Overviews. Livros e artigos sobre Aby Warburg em língua portuguesa (2018-2023): the bibliography edited by Ianick Takaes updates the review of texts on Aby Warburg in Portuguese by Cássio Fernandes published in ”Engramma” 165, Aby Warburg negli studi latino-americani. Исследования о Варбурге в России by Ekaterina Mikhailova-Smolniakova summarises the recent studies about Aby Warburg in Russia. Current researchers in Russia have access both to translations and original texts by Aby Warburg. Warburgian Studies in Australia edited by Jaynie Anderson, updates the history Australian studies about Warburg and his legacy are summarised by the intellectual and scientific history of the three most important and influential scholars in this field: Jaynie Anderson, Robert Gaston and Charles Green. III. Presentations and Reviews. Micheal Diers in Aby Warburg. Ein Porträt aus Briefen presents here the Introduction to Briefe, edited by Micheal Diers and Thomas Helbig and published for De Gruyter’s Gesammelte Schriften, Studienausgabe series. Victoria Cirlot, En el Archivo Warburg. A propósito de: A. Warburg, Per monstra ad sphaeram. Terror y armonía de las esferas presents the new Spanish translation of Per monstra ad sphaeram, the text of the lecture given by Aby Warburg in 1925 in memory of Franz Boll. Cirlot collects the most important sections of the text published by Sexto Piso in 2022. Gabriele Guerra in Expanded Warburg reviews Aby Warburg and Living Thought, edited by Monica Centanni and published by Ronzani editore. Aby Warburg. Uno spazio per il pensiero, edited by Seminario Mnemosyne