Speech by Enzo D’Angelo at the 1st International Conference on Restoration. Auditorium of the Regional Council of Tuscany, Florence, november 24th 1995. In his report “For a restoration of memory. In search of Mantegna” he says: «With his spatial experimentation, in techniques, in materials, with the encounter between painting and sculpture that is also architecture, although not built, Mantegna, with his passion for history and archaeology, offers the contemporary an original continuity between classicism and modernity, which will continue with the Bibbiena and Piranesi in the history of imagined and ephemeral architecture. Mantegna leaves us too many traces that cross time, to be ignored »(…)  «The failure to celebrate the anniversary of the loss of the frescoes of the Ovetari Chapel in Padua, bombed in 1944, becomes a bivalent, serious theme that also imposes sarcasm ». D’Angelo wants to convey the emptiness of forgetfulness. He speaks of polyindrome recurrences, touches on the paradox and almost the calembour. Then he interrupts the historical narration, which in this case he defines as «a painful anastylosis as in the restoration of the frescoes » and invites those present to look for Mantegna in contemporaneity. Applause, although perhaps not everyone understood everything. But no one takes up the invitation. There is a consensus in the sharing smiles of historians and those familiar with D’Angelo’s subtly provocative reflections. (From the report by Riccardo Pantò)