Elegy of Lady Fiammetta is a short prose work from the 1340s, told in the voice of a married Neapolitan woman who has been left by her lover. She describes her passion, her secrecy, her jealousy and her long unhappiness, addressing other women who might read her story. It is often called one of the first psychological novels in European literature, because it concentrates on inner feeling more than on outward events. Its themes are desire, abandonment and the pain of memory, drawing on classical models such as Ovid.