In Sappho's fragments lies one of the most extraordinary treasures of art and humanity that archaic Greece has bequeathed to us. Recalling the life of the Greek poetess, through this light and profound work by Beatrice Masini, is an opportunity to approach her, to enter an ancient and ever-present world: human feelings, the search for one's place in existence. And of women, in particular. The refined illustrations are by Pia Valentinis. "No one has ever written about love like this [...]. But this pain, this something that burns and races and presses within, the pulsing heart, the vibrating body, this feeling of being raptured from oneself, had not been expressed before. It was there, of course, in life, in the lives of those who love; but no one had yet found the words to say it. Not these words.