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Le seduzioni - Le vergini folli

Chapter 30: la meraviglia
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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 meraviglia

Incatenata dalla meraviglia,

s'indugia ancora e il sangue dei rubini,

forse, il pallor del volto le invermiglia.

O perle opache, o bei fiori marini

che le regine attorcono in collane

su le grazie de' nudi alabastrini.

Dolci turchesi ed ametiste strane

prescelte ai fasti della liturgia,

gemme per dita sacre e per sovrane.

Gioie di nozze e prezzo di follia

ch'offre amore a far sazia la sua sete.....

Taluno che la riguardante spìa

esce dall'ombra e tenta: — Che scegliete?