“The Foot of a Woman” is one of 12 monologues by Gandolin (the pseudonym of Luigi Arnaldo Vassallo) that was staged for the first time in 1909. Gandolin pays homage to the foot of a beautiful woman, calling it a fundamental virtue of the feminine sex, and goes so far as to say that Adam’s fleeting look at Eve’s feet might have been the cause of original sin. In his usual sarcastic tone, Gandolin concludes the monologue by affirming that a woman’s foot is so irresistible that it possesses the power to move a man’s hands!
