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Le seduzioni - Le vergini folli

Chapter 195: bellezza della vita
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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.

bellezza della vita

Bellezza della vita, io non ti trovo.

Pure ti cerco in me, pure ti spio

su fronti di sorelle. Ombre d'oblio

or tento ed or gelosi veli io smuovo.

Il primo balenar d'un riso nuovo

scruto, m'insinuo in qualche spirto pio,

indago ogni speranza, ogni desio,

ma a scoprirti con vana ansia mi provo.

Tu esisti forse in spiriti virili

esperti in trar da ciascun fiore ebrezza,

o in chiara gioia d'anime infantili.

Non nel nostro anelar d'anime inermi:

inquete fiamme, chiuse da saggezza

d'antiche norme fra leggiadri schermi.