Italian term for poetic inspiration, sharing a root with a word for a period of heat in female mammals (5)
I believe the answer is:
estro
(Other definitions for estro that I've seen before include "Poetic inspiration; store (anagram)" , "height of poetic inspiration" , "Enthusiasm" .)
I've seen this clue in The Sunday Times and The Times.
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