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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.
Il morbo s'iniziò fra due sorrisi,
in un languore, s'incrudì in un male
vïolento, toccò l'estrema crisi.
Parossismo d'amor cieco che assale
la pazïente e la travolge, quasi
ad uno stato di demenza eguale.
Dal cuor sconvolto irruppero le frasi
inconsulte ed il pianto acre. Il dolore
contorse i polsi dalla febbre invasi.
Da queste crisi stritolato il cuore
esce, come da macina esce il grano.
Fatto diverso, muto di stupore,
s'ascolta, balza, si ritrova sano.