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Penelope's Web
A FEMININE RETELLING OF CLASSIC MYTHOLOGY IN POETRY
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Stefania Lucchetti is an Italian award-winning poet and essayist. Bilingual in Italian and English, she writes poetry of lyrical refinement and contemporary relevance.
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Cover Art: Dora Wheeler, Penelope Unraveling Her Work at Night - 1886 - Silk embroidery with silk thread (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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Penelope's Web is a sophisticated bilingual collection, presented in both English and Italian (poems side by side), which invites readers into a world where mythology, metaphor, and personal reflection intertwine. The collection includes Stefania Lucchetti’s poems dedicated to mythology figures which have been originally published in other larger collections.
Stefania Lucchetti’s poems draw upon the timeless power of mythological figures, weaving together ancient narratives with the intimate textures of contemporary experience. Lucchetti’s verses explore the inner lives and legacies of goddesses, gods, heroines, heroes, and mortals, revealing the profound emotional currents which connect their stories to modern existence, uncovering the universal truths within us all. Lucchetti’s words capture the depth of longing, resilience, and transformation, breathing life into stories as old as time and yet intimate and personal drawing the reader into a profound and metaphorical journey.
Each poem becomes a meeting place between the mythic and the human, the universal and the intimate, where longing, resilience, transformation, and desire echo through time. Through her thoughtful and evocative language, Lucchetti illuminates the parallels between divine archetypes and everyday emotions, offering readers a lens through which myth becomes both mirror and metaphor.
Aphrodite, Artemis, Ariadne, Penelope, Ulysses, Hekate, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, Medusa, the Crone, Eve, Lilith, Anubis, and Bilquis are among the mythological figures featured in this collection, accompanied by poems dedicated tarot archetypes which further enrich its symbolic landscape.
With Penelope’s Web, readers are invited to enter a lyrical realm where classical figures speak in new voices, where ancient tales resonate with present-day meaning, and where every line serves as a connecting thread to the larger human story.
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Stefania Lucchetti is an Italian award-winning poet and essayist. Bilingual in Italian and English, she writes poetry of lyrical refinement and contemporary relevance.
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Cover Art: Dora Wheeler, Penelope Unraveling Her Work at Night - 1886 - Silk embroidery with silk thread (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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Penelope's Web is a sophisticated bilingual collection, presented in both English and Italian (poems side by side), which invites readers into a world where mythology, metaphor, and personal reflection intertwine. The collection includes Stefania Lucchetti’s poems dedicated to mythology figures which have been originally published in other larger collections.
Stefania Lucchetti’s poems draw upon the timeless power of mythological figures, weaving together ancient narratives with the intimate textures of contemporary experience. Lucchetti’s verses explore the inner lives and legacies of goddesses, gods, heroines, heroes, and mortals, revealing the profound emotional currents which connect their stories to modern existence, uncovering the universal truths within us all. Lucchetti’s words capture the depth of longing, resilience, and transformation, breathing life into stories as old as time and yet intimate and personal drawing the reader into a profound and metaphorical journey.
Each poem becomes a meeting place between the mythic and the human, the universal and the intimate, where longing, resilience, transformation, and desire echo through time. Through her thoughtful and evocative language, Lucchetti illuminates the parallels between divine archetypes and everyday emotions, offering readers a lens through which myth becomes both mirror and metaphor.
Aphrodite, Artemis, Ariadne, Penelope, Ulysses, Hekate, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, Medusa, the Crone, Eve, Lilith, Anubis, and Bilquis are among the mythological figures featured in this collection, accompanied by poems dedicated tarot archetypes which further enrich its symbolic landscape.
With Penelope’s Web, readers are invited to enter a lyrical realm where classical figures speak in new voices, where ancient tales resonate with present-day meaning, and where every line serves as a connecting thread to the larger human story.
81 pages, Paperback
Published November 24, 2024
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About the author
Stefania Lucchetti
23 books27 followersStefania Lucchetti is an award-winning Italian poet and essayist. She is among the most widely read Italian contemporary poets worldwide as she is bilingual (Italian-English) and writes in both languages.
Born in 1975 in Italy, Lucchetti saw her first poem published at the age of 13 while living in the US with her family, marking the beginning of a long journey as wordsmith. After the diploma at the liceo classico Alighieri in Gorizia and juris doctorate from the Catholic University of Milan in 1999 with a thesis on the liberalisation of the telecommunications regulatory framework, she embarked on a career as a multiqualified lawyer in the field of international commercial law in Milan, London and Hong Kong, without ever ceasing to write. Among the first Italian lawyers to specialize in telecommunications and new technologies, she advised several technology pioneers over the years. Lucchetti was the first Italian lawyer to also qualify as a solicitor in Hong Kong SAR, after qualifying in the UK. She also obtain a second master’s degree in clinical psychology out of personal interest and to enrich her knowledge base and her writing.
Her profile is listed in Italian Poetry Org, Wikipoesia, and Poetesse Donne.
Born in 1975 in Italy, Lucchetti saw her first poem published at the age of 13 while living in the US with her family, marking the beginning of a long journey as wordsmith. After the diploma at the liceo classico Alighieri in Gorizia and juris doctorate from the Catholic University of Milan in 1999 with a thesis on the liberalisation of the telecommunications regulatory framework, she embarked on a career as a multiqualified lawyer in the field of international commercial law in Milan, London and Hong Kong, without ever ceasing to write. Among the first Italian lawyers to specialize in telecommunications and new technologies, she advised several technology pioneers over the years. Lucchetti was the first Italian lawyer to also qualify as a solicitor in Hong Kong SAR, after qualifying in the UK. She also obtain a second master’s degree in clinical psychology out of personal interest and to enrich her knowledge base and her writing.
Her profile is listed in Italian Poetry Org, Wikipoesia, and Poetesse Donne.
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November 21, 2025
This is book collects Italian award winning author Stefania Lucchetti's poems based on mythology figures which have been publisher in her several other books. Reading all these beautiful poems together without other poems is a narrative experience: the metaphors and characters tell a story which is almost cinematic. A true example of beautiful poetry which tells universal stories.
January 8, 2026
I enjoyed it very much. I’ve studied Italian for three years and that made my journey through these pages enriching and joyful. I found the beauty and the depth in both languages. This is my first poerty book in a decade and it has opened my hunger for more.
January 10, 2026
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