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Chapter 13: incertezze
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The collection gathers lyrical sequences and sonnets in a confessional voice that probes modern female identity, desire, and social performance. One extended autobiographical sequence composed of many thirteen-line terzine reads like a novel without plot, tracing appetite, flirtation, indifference, and the exhilaration of urban fashion and nightlife; other poems, including more compact sonnets, record earlier romantic suffering and youthful passions. The speaker juxtaposes classical female archetypes with a contemporary Parisian model to explore ambivalence toward love, liberty, and reputation, using vivid sensory detail, psychological introspection, and recurring images of gaze, costume, jealousy, and theatricalized seduction.

incertezze

Pure, ancora di qualche trafittura

tremavo, a guisa di convalescente

ch'ogni indizio del suo male impaura.

Non ben certa di me, trepidamente,

il mio silenzio intimo ascoltando,

mi premevo sul cuor le mani intente.

M'indagai, mi scrutai, mi dolsi, e quando

m'avvidi in qual tenacità d'affanno

esasperavo un dubitar sì blando,

scossi da me l'antico e il nuovo danno

e balzai, folle di desii fugaci,

incontro al riso d'ogni bell'inganno,

gli risi coi notturni occhi: — Mi piaci!