La lupa con Romolo e Remo in un'inedita Decade ferrarese e in altri manoscritti miniati tra Medioevo e Rinascimento

The She-wolf with Romulus and Remus in an unpublished ferrarese Decade i and other illuminated manuscripts between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance · The article intends to focus on the representation of Romulus and Remus suckled by the She-wolf within the corpus of Livy’s Ab Urbe condita libri manuscripts made in Italy between the 13th and 15th centuries. Starting from the analysis of an unknown First Decade, ms. D.I.16 preserved at the National University Library of Turin, attributed to the Ferrara area for the first time and dated to the middle of the sixth decade of the 15th century, we will try to retrace the main iconographic variations of this subject in the figurative arts from Antiquity to the early Renaissance. We will analyze evidence in illuminated manuscripts and compare them to reflect on the illustrative choices adopted by the illuminators and their patrons. The selected illuminations show great inventive freedom not only towards the relationship with the Livian text, but also towards the available visual sources.