Fulgor ille. Costruzione di un'impresa

The revolution we call the ‘Renaissance’ is the invention of a new theory of individuality. As a new centrality is conferred upon the singular profile of each individual, the heraldic emblems of ‘family’, the arms of nobility, retreat into the background. What triumphs is the 'impresa' which celebrates one, and only one, clearly identified and inimitable, subjectivity. According to Renaissance treatists Paolo Giovio, Andrea Alciato and Filippo Piccinelli, the 'impresa' is built on the relationship between 'body' and 'soul', between image and word, and is called to compete in the quest for a new horizon of meaning. The date of the ‘impresa’ invented for Engramma is the year 2000, also the birth year of the journal “La Rivista di Engramma”. The ‘body’ is composed by a symbolic snake that winds on a stone ring on which a passage of De vinculis in genere by Giordano Bruno is inscribed: "Nothing binds itself unless it is predisposed to the best form of binding, because it is a spark that is not transmitted to all things in the same way” (De vinc in gen II).