Le Nozze di Pesaro del 1475 nel codice Urb. Lat. 899. Gli dèi al vaglio della memoria nell’Atlante Mnemosyne di Aby Warburg

Abstract

The article examines the function of the deities of the Greco-Roman pantheon within Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas, situating them within his conception of a montage of knowledge. The analysis focuses on Panel 36 of the Mnemosyne Atlas, devoted to the thirty-two miniatures of the manuscript Urb. Lat. 899, which documents the wedding celebrations of Costanzo Sforza and Camilla d’Aragona held in Pesaro in 1475. The chronicle of this festival records a crucial phase in the irruption of Antiquity into the early Italian Renaissance, in which mythological figures and astrological demons are presented, for the first time, «in their corporeal reality».