Warburg Postwar
Having been moved to London from Nazi Germany, the esteemed library of Renaissance culture played a key role in restoring links between international scholars after the Second World War.
An entire volume, published in 1947, of one of the most prestigious reviews in Britain for humanistic studies, the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, was written completely by Italian scholars. It was a small but significant symbol that intellectuals could rebuild cultural relations between Italy and Britain following the trauma of the Second World War. As the Italian philosopher, writer and politician Guido Calogero wrote in its preface:
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