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