DESTINI INCROCIATI: WARBURG, YATES E LE IMMAGINI IN BRUNO

Both Aby Warburg and Frances Yates highlighted, albeit in different ways, the theme of images in the writings of Bruno, in relation to the subject of memory. The images refer to different cultural traditions/memories, just like the very terms used in philosophy refer to different philosophical schools. In their 'survival' in time, images and words/concepts are transformed. Bruno not only entertains this view, but places it as a key point of his philosophical program, that is, to use traditional terms and images to express something new. In his writings this idea emerges in different guises, according to a program that gathers cultural interpolations in the context of an ars combinatoria. This entails a change of point of view with respect to the evaluation of the different cultures of the past and to the very search for truth.