Passions

by Giacomo Leopardi

Selections from Leopardi's prose masterwork, Zibaldone, one of the great intellectual diaries in European literature, expertly translated by Tim Parks

Revenge--Revenge is so sweet one often wishes to be insulted so as to be able to take revenge, and I don't mean just by an old enemy, but anyone, or even (especially when in a really bad mood) by a friend.--from Passions

The extraordinary quality...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300186339
• ISBN13: 9780300186338
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.0"