Aby Warburg, the founder of a new Science of Culture, the scholar who gave back word to the image; a “militant” intellectual (so wrote Gertrud Bing), for whom no distinction exists between life and thought; pioneer of new research methods, inventing ‘machines’ of knowledge; architect of spaces designed as arenas of thought. The Library for the Science of Culture (transferred from Hamburg to London in 1933) and the <i>Mnemosyne Atlas </i>are the achievements to which the most substantial part of his heritage is linked. The ten essays here collected for the first time, all stemming from the Ital