A reference (Nuovi annali dell'agricoltura, 1936) reports the true name of this rose (Dott. Emma Fenaroli) and the name of the breeder (not discoverer) Baron Ippolito d'Isola.
Emma Levi was a chemist, born in Torino (24 december 1886) converted to catholicism when she married, in 1912, Tenente Colonnello Piero Fenaroli who died in 1918. In 1936 she received from the Accademia d’Italia an award for her 17 years activity in the field of essences and officinal plants. In 1938, because of the racial laws she was disbarred from the Istituto italiano di storia della chimica of Rome. She died on 21 may 1959.