Priestess of love and death, she veils her face

A chronology of Italian silent diva films! The list’s title comes from a title card in Rapsodia Satanica (1915).

“Women suffer from the problem of either not having enough time or having too much of it. Temporality for them is suffused with feelings of anxiety about aging too rapidly or with waiting alone for a real love that may never come. Women’s condition is modern in the sense that “being modern” means to worry about time. Yet their situation is eccentric because whether they...