Beauty and the Beast

To save her father from death, Belle - the virtuous daughter of a bankrupt merchant - agrees to leave home and live with the Beast, the cruel owner of a large estate... The writer Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont published the most famous version of the fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast" in 1756, the roots of which go back to the second century. Francesca Del Orto, who worked as a costume designer in an opera and then fell in love with the world of illustration, offers us a magical interpretation of the story that shows the value of inner beauty and the importance of not judging others by their appearance alone.