title: Sweet Fire: Tullia d'Aragona's Poetry of Dialogue and Selected Prose
author: Tullia D'Aragona
description: <b>Elizabeth Pallitto</b> received her Ph.D. in Italian and Comparative Literature from CUNY Graduate Center in 2003. Since then, she has taught English and comparative literature, as well as French and Italian. Her own poetry is published in <i>The North American Review, ArkAngel Review</i>, and <i>Litspeak</i>. Her literary translations have been published in <i>Philosophical Forum, Forum Italicum</i>, and several anthologies of Italian poetry, including <i>Antologia Napoletana</i>. She currently teaches English literature in Istanbul.
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  Claimed by the Alphas
  
  
  PART THREE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright ©2014 by Viola Rivard
  
  
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  # TABLE OF CONTENTS
  
  
  
  
  
  [CHAPTER ONE](part0000_split_003.html#c1)
  
  
  [CHAPTER TWO](part0000_split_004.html#c2)
  
  
  [CHAPTER THREE](part0000_split_005.html#c3)
  
  
  [CHAPTER FOUR](part0000_split_006.html#c4)
  
  
  [CHAPTER FIVE](part0000_split_007.html#c5)
  
  
  [CHAPTER SIX](part0000_split_008.html#c6)
  
  
  [CHAPTER SEVEN](part0000_split_009.html#c7)
  
  
  [CHAPTER EIGHT](part0000_split_010.html#c8)
  
  
  [CHAPTER NINE](part0000_split_011.html#c9)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ‘Have you not been listening?’ I asked her. ‘I hate him and I never want to
  see him again. Now either take me back to Aragón or get out of my way.’
  
  
  ‘Está bien,’ she said. ‘I will take you as far as the foot of the mountain,
  and when you have had time to think, I will take you back up.’
  
  
  We walked for hours without speaking. The wolf hummed a tune, while I festered
  in my ra