The title is a reference to a butterfly subspecies discovered in 1992 by an Italian entomologist, which was named Parnassius mnemosyne guccinii after the singer-songwriter.

[4] Parnassius Guccinii was generally well received by critics and won the 1994 award Targa Tenco as best album.

[5] The newspaper La Repubblica said it was "beautiful",[2] while an article on the Corriere della Sera said Guccini in the album was "sincere and hot-tempered" and "at times even funny".

[6] The Italian music website Ondarock.com gave a 6 mark to the album, saying Guccini was "inspired", and praising "Farewell" as one of the best songs he ever wrote.

[7] The literary critic Paolo Jachia stated: "Guccini's enormous poetic and cultural effort has been opening the best tradition of Italian poetry to Dylan-esque ballads".