Sappho's fragments contain one of the most extraordinary treasures of art and humanity that archaic Greece has left us. Recalling the life of the Greek poet through this light and profound work by Beatrice Masini is an opportunity to get closer to her, to enter an ancient and ever-present world: human feelings, the search for a 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 heart that beats, the body that vibrates, this feeling of being rapt within oneself, had never been spoken of before. It was there, certainly, in life, in the lives of those who love; but no one had yet found the words to express it. Not these.