“One talked all European languages”. Note on a Letter from Gertrud Bing to Luigi Meneghello (1957)

We publish here a letter sent by Gertrud Bing to Luigi Meneghello on 16 January 1957, a few months after Bing’s lecture on the Warburg Institute at the Humanist Studies Conference in La Mendola. The letter describes the conference’s “European” atmosphere and represents important evidence to the new historical and intellectual context after the tragic years of the Second World War and the German intellectuals’ diaspora. The text also provides details to the state of art on the Italian edition of Warburg's writings for La Nuova Italia, which Bing edited (and which would only be published after her death in 1966).