Paule Amblard: “From caterpillar to butterfly”

That day, overshadowed by reading the newspapers which paint a grim picture of what awaits us, I join a group of children to find my niece. They play, disguised as magicians with large pointed hats and capes on which are glued stars, flowers and funny planets exploding with colors. Large silver wands in hand, they … Read more

The Madonnas of the butterfly (and grasshopper)

In a short and brilliant essay of 1927, the then librarian of the Malatestiana of Cesena, Arturo Torquato Dazzi, foreshadowed the idea that the quadripetala rose, so frequent in the works of Rimini’s Malatesta, was attributable to Isotta degli Atti (lover and later third wife of Sigismondo) and that the butterfly, which appears in a … Read more