Not only this, but some of these women were also ready to engage in poetic exchanges ( tenzoni) with male poets such as Piccolomini. In his other works Piccolomini tells us even more: some of these women were, in fact, accomplished poets in their own right, ready to compose not only love sonnets in the Petrarchan style that was all the rage at that time, but also poetry that was profoundly engaged with current political or religious matters. After such a powerful intro it settles into a melancholy approach, almost sounding like 80s AOR like Survivor or Journey. Piccolomini’s comment points to a very important aspect of Sienese cultural life in the mid- 16th century: the involvement of literate women in learned discussions of literature. A strange soundwave of a clock chiming, soldiers marching and aeroplanes soaring above, followed by guns and grenades exploding leads to the opening acoustics on To Kiss the Tears You Cry. Aquí, las 100 mejores canciones de rock progresivo de todos los tiempos, según la revista 'Prog'. In the dedicatory letter to his astronomical compendium De la sfera del mondo (1540), addressed to the Sienese poet Laudomia Forteguerri, Alessandro Piccolomini mentions that he had heard that Laudomia had spent a warm afternoon that previous springtime sitting in a circle under a laurel tree in the garden of her villa just outside Siena discussing Dante’s Paradiso with some of her women friends.