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Le seduzioni - Le vergini folli

Chapter 29: le gemme
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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.

TENTAZIONI

le gemme

Seduzïone aspra di gemme e d'ori

sotto accesi convolvoli rivolti

a versarvi o a riceverne i fulgori.

Dietro il cristallo han palpiti raccolti

i tesori e colei che vi si attarda

sopra v'allarga i suoi grand'occhi stolti.

I solitari di bell'acqua guarda,

com'Eva guardò gli occhi del serpente

raggianti la promessa maliarda.

Riflette sotto il battito frequente

de' cigli la freddezza imperiale

degli smeraldi e l'iride sfuggente

che balena nel cuore dell'opale.