D’Annunzio (born 1863), Versi d’amore e di gloria, incipit of “Alle Pleiadi e ai Fati” (1903), t (.)
9 The German word that writers in that language can use instead of the Romance loan motto means, lite (.).
It was an appropriate question, she felt, for a person of her generation : EPEA PTEROENTAģ Karen Blixen opened her lecture “On Mottoes of My Life,” delivered in New York in 1959, by praising the wisdom of the interviewer who had asked her to sum up the events and experiences of her life in a motto. My title is meant to suggest an alternative, as it takes the word impresa literally and in its widest sense, following the example of Robert Klein and, even earlier, the intuition of a Renaissance theorist, Alessandro Farra: if every act and every operation of the human mind is thus an impresa 6 the unity of his library and his writings makes up indeed Aby Warburg’s impresa, one to be defined, without exaggeration, as truly heroic 7. With respect to Warburg, who should be compared, if at all, to Vasari’s Leonardo, unable to bring to completion his paintings for excessive “intelligenzia de l’arte,” 5 the very category of “work” appears painfully inadequate to express the true character of his modus operandi. Paul Valéry has suggested that there are no completed, or finished, but only abandoned works 4.
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One may only hope that the end result of the now finally ongoing publication of his Nachlass will not itself be a full stop. 7 This characterization also captures the entrepreneurial spirit, so to speak, of Warburg’s enterpris (.)Ģ In Warburg’s own case, it is as if a period was placed after the title of a book that did not yet exist.Klein, “La théorie de l’expression figurée dans les traités italiens sur les Imprese, 1555- 1612 (.) Vasari, Le vite de’ più eccellenti architetti, pittori, et scultori italiani (1550), Einaudi, To (.) Valéry, Tel Quel I, Gallimard, Paris 1941, pp. Proof enough that such narrowmindedness (I can find no better word) was wholly alien to Warburg’s way of thinking is the warning he gave to one of his assistants: when cataloging a book, he thundered,one should not put a period after the title, since “a book keeps on living ” 3. The paradox, whereby a list of the books he purchased should be thought to provide the most reliable image of his work, may also partly answer for the unconscionable delay in bringing Warburg’s unpublished writings to print. ” 1 This observation will, unfortunately, become a topos in later accounts of Warburg’s life and work 2. He rather inclined toward a publication of the catalog of the Library, which would grant, Saxl argued, “the best insight into his activity.
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Landauer, The Survival of Antiquity: The German Years of the Warburg Institute, Yale Univ (.)ġ In a letter of Jto Alfred Doren, who had raised the timely question of how to celebrate Aby Warburg’s sixtieth birthday in an adequate manner, Fritz Saxl rejected in no uncertain terms the idea of an edition of his writings: Warburg himself had apparently forbidden it, and Saxl considered only with reluctance the possibility of publishing a Festschrift in Warburg’s honor. Diers, Warburg aus Briefen: Kommentare zu den Kopierbüchern der Jahre 1905-1918, VCH, Weinhe (.) 1 Warburg Institute Archive, General Correspondence, Fritz Saxl to (.).
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