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A New York Times Notable Book for 2011

New verse translation, bilingual edition, annotated

Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) is Italy's greatest poet since Dante, and one of the first modern thinkers of the West. The Cantos is his unfinished masterpiece, whose grim lyricism fuses a rare poetic... Read Full Overview

A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 Giacomo Leopardi is Italy's greatest modern poet, the first European writer to portray and examine the self in a way that feels familiar to us today. A great classical scholar and patriot, he explored metaphysical loneliness in entirely... Read Full Overview

'So my mind sinks in this immensity:
and foundering is sweet in such a sea'

First published in 1831, and here presented in a dual-language edition with annotations and additional reading material, Leopardi's poetical masterpiece is an unsurpassed anatomy of man's unhappiness on earth. Trapped between an admiration for the classical past and a disappointment... Read Full Overview

A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 Giacomo Leopardi is Italy's greatest modern poet, the first European writer to portray and examine the self in a way that feels familiar to us today. A great classical scholar and patriot, he explored metaphysical loneliness in entirely... Read Full Overview

The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi

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""I Canti di Giacomo Leopardi"" ����� una raccolta di poesie scritte da Giacomo Leopardi, uno dei pi����� importanti poeti italiani del XIX secolo. La raccolta ����� stata... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

Giacomo Leopardi (Recanati June 29, 1798 - Naples June 14, 1837) was an Italian poet, essayist, philosopher, and philologist. He is considered one of the greatest poets of the 19th century. Even if he lived in a secluded town in the ultra-conservative Papal States, he came in... Read Full Overview

Il libro ""Poesie di Giacomo Leopardi"" ����� una raccolta delle opere poetiche del celebre poeta italiano Giacomo Leopardi. Pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1881, il libro contiene molte delle poesie pi�����... Read Full Overview

Giacomo Leopardi ? ritenuto il maggior poeta dell'Ottocento italiano e una delle pi? importanti figure della letteratura mondiale, e la profondit? della sua riflessione sull'esistenza e sulla condizione umana ne fa anche un filosofo di notevole spessore. La straordinaria qualit?... Read Full Overview

This edition presents the complete poetry of Giacomo Leopardi, one of Italy's most celebrated poets, preceded by an introduction by Domenico Cappellina offering insights into Leopardi's life and works. Leopardi's poems explore themes of existential despair, the search for... Read Full Overview