On one level Antonietta resembles Lloyd C. Douglas's The Robe (1942).
Christ's robe exerted an influence on all who wore or touched it; Antonietta inspires music and genius and erotic impulses whenever she is played. Robert Browning's "Pippa Passes" features a little servant girl on holiday whose joy and innocence influences everyone she meets. The use of a physical object which is seen as a fetish is almost as old in literature as it is in religion, a sword like Excalibur for example, or the Holy Grail also so much a part of Arthurian legend.
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