Covers radical public poems of Leopardi on history and politics; philosophical satires; his great, dark, despairing odes such as "To Silvia"; and, later masterworks such as "The Setting of the Moon", written not long before Leopardi's death.

General Information

ISBN : 9780141193878
Publisher : Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint : Penguin Classics
Weight (g) : 0.362
Publication date : 01 November 2010
Produced in : United Kingdom
Availability date : 01 January 2011
Product Type : books

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Author : Giacomo Leopardi
Bind : Paperback
Edition : 1
Dewey classification : 851.7
Pages : 528

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Author description

Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi (1798 -1837) was an Italian poet, essayist, philosopher, and philologist. Despite living in a secluded town in the conservative Stato della Chiesa, he engaged deeply and enthusiastically with the foremost thinkers and concepts of the Enlightenment, and created a remarkable and renowned poetic work that secured his place as one of the greatest poets of modern Italy. Jonathan Galassi is a poet, translator and publisher based in New York. His translations include the poems of Eugenio Montale.