A woman, her rebellion and her passions. A historical novel that depicts the 16th century through the life of an obstinate and proud Renaissance poet.

Lucca, mid 16th century: Chiara Matraini comes from a family of weavers, who are neither nobles nor courtiers, the only conditions that allow women in those times to have a public life. Her future will no doubt be that of a bourgeois woman locked up behind the walls of a palazzo, a marriage to a suitable husband and children. Chiara, however, has been given her parents’ consent to study, and thus decides to become a woman of letters, and more than that, a poet. This is a very unconventional choice that she will pay a heavy price for. But Chiara is a proud, tenacious woman, not one to be dominated like her native town of Lucca. She will never stop fighting in the name of her love for her son and for a man who she loves desperately, of her passion for poetry, and especially of herself and her dignity as a woman.

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