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Chapter 137: per amore
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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.

per amore

Tanto più gaudiose innanzi agli occhi,

tristi tuttor, m'apparvero le Amate,

in tal figura d'anime beate

ch'io me n'estasiai, muta, a ginocchi.

— Questo fervor ch'è in noi sembra trabocchi,

ne accenda, quasi lucciole d'estate.

Più non risplendon torcie in sacre arcate

che i nostri cuori da tal fiamma tocchi.

Ed erano i lor detti luminosi,

e i sorrisi e le fronti e gli occhi loro

sì, ch'io parlando il volto mi nascosi.

— Cantate tutti i canti verginali —

dissi. — Già scende Amor con ali d'oro

a celebrar con voi i suoi sponsali.