Sirene

"[...] With astonishing vigor emerged straight from the water to the waist, he clasped my neck with her ​​arms wrapped me in a perfume ever heard, slid into the boat: under the groin, under the buttocks its body was that of a fish, covered with tiny scales pearly and blue, and ended in a forked tail [...] »
[Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, La Sirena]