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Chapter 170: PROFILI
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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.

PROFILI

le oscure

Negli angoli discreti degli altari

scorron corone fra le dita snelle

figure curve come vecchierelle,

cui lumeggian di scorcio i lampadari.

Tutte han gli stessi movimenti rari,

gli stessi volti scarni di zitelle.

Si salutan con occhi di sorelle,

cercando un riso in fondo ai cuori amari.

Sembran celare con gelosa cura

il male di sentire a ogni ora farsi

più vuoti i polsi e l'anima più oscura.

E ciascuna furtiva si dilegua,

senza rumore, quasi per sottrarsi

a un dileggio sottil che la persegua.