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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.
Tu hai mill'anime in una, o multiforme.
Innumeri tumultuano i cuori
dentro il tuo cuore piccolo ed enorme.
Ognuno sa com'odi e come adori,
avventuriera arguta della scena,
ognun sa come vivi e come muori.
O bramata dagli uomini, una vena
fragile del tuo polso assai più forte
li allaccia della più salda catena.
E quando ti atterrò sfatta la morte
dinanzi a folle cupide di te,
la voluttà su le tue labbra smorte
bevono nelle alcove d'oro i re.