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Le seduzioni - Le vergini folli

Chapter 136: la fedeltà
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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.

la fedeltà

— La nostra è morte in vita, — allor sommesso

gemette un lagno d'accorata voce.

Con le mani sul sen foggiate a croce

veniano altre, e con sì stanco incesso!

Venian quelle cui fu tutto promesso,

cui tutto in fior mietè la falce atroce,

bianche tra i veli, sotto il lor precoce

lutto, spiando l'ombra d'un cipresso.

E le vergini vedove, le spose

senza nozze, le sacre a una memoria

d'amore, le fedeli dolorose

sfilarono, funerea teoria,

in attitudin di pietà scultoria,

goccia a goccia gustando l'agonia.