Between the human soul and butterflies there is a close kinship: what in one is oscillation and rise in the other is flutter and color. Aristotle was the first to coin the word psyche to designate this link, and, after him, poets and painters represented the winged soul, fragile and elusive but beautiful. Today it is photography that documents the life of these splendid insects, whose miraculous existence in turn shows how volatile and extraordinary human life is. Brief and intense, the stories that Mario Satz brings together in this beautiful book tell of the adventures and misadventures of those winged jewels that have given rise to so many myths, legends and fables worth remembering.
