From even more distant silences,
Golden far-away birds tinted in different colors
Crossed and recrossed in the powder blue evening: the ship
Already blind plowing ahead beating against the darkness
With our shipwrecked hearts
--DINO CAMPANA
On a serene August morning in rural Tuscany in the year 1916, Rina Faccio, a.k.a. Sibilla Aleramo, self-styled feminist, romancer of some repute, and author of the scandalous autobiography, Una donna, met and fell in love ...