Cantos

by Giacomo Leopardi

Book Overview

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 genius with an unwavering moral conscience.

Rooted in the ancients and the Enlightenment, Leopardi developed a lucid directness that influenced creative minds from Nietzsche...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1937620204
• ISBN13: 9781937620202
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Charles & Wonder LLC
• Length: 538 Pages
• Weight: 1.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"