The Book of the Virgins
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Le vergini delle rocce (The Book of the Virgins, 1895) is a book by Gabriele d'Annunzio.
From the Back Cover
- A spinster lies dying of typhus, her virgin body shrivelled and corrupted by disease. The priest performs extreme unction – no hope is held out for recovery. But Giuliana does not die, and gradually her life returns: first a ravenous hunger, then a repairing of the flesh, finally a total spiritual renewal. She is left a newborn adult, sensually aware, all taste for her past chaste life gone; but this new hyper-sensitivity, coupled with a complete sexual innocence, heralds an awakening of tragic proportions.
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