The novella The House of Others is among the rare perfect works of twentieth century fiction. In a desolate mountain village an old woman visits the parish priest, ostensibly to ask about dissolving a marriage.

The volume discusses the framing and transmission of historical knowledge and its consequences for the construction of narratives and the teaching of history in multicultural environments.

Although Artemisia describes life in seventeenth-century Rome, Florence, and Naples, the time setting of the novel is, in a deeper sense, a historical, merging as it does the experience of a woman dead for three centuries with the terrors ...

... ogni neve oscura ; Vaga ghirlanda pur di verde alloro Copria la fronte sua candida e pura ; Candida , quale al suo virgineo coro Suol Diana parer , poi che sicura D'altra vista mortal tra fiori e fronde Lascia il casto ... parte ; So ben ...

Written at the end of the 1st century AD and cut short by the poet's death, Statius' epic poem Achilleid survives only in fragments.