Der neunzehnjährige Giacomo Leopardi lebt in der Abgeschiedenheit des gräflichen Elternhauses in den Marken. Als im Dezember 1817 die schöne, sieben Jahre ältere Cousine Gertrude Cassi-Lazzari zu Besuch kommt, entbrennt Leopardi in Liebe für die schöne Frau, die jedoch allzu bald wieder abreist. Erneut allein, beschließt der Jüngling, sein Herz zu erleichtern, indem er das Gedicht Die erste Liebe verfasst und seinen Gemütszustand in einem nich...
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 to Calvino, from Beckett to Fellini. His poems have the presence of sculpt...
Aonia edizioni. Translated: F. Townsend. Preface: O. B. Frothingham.
Giacomo Leopardi is a great name in Italy among philosophers and poets, but is quite unknown in this country, and Mr. Townsend has the honor of introducing him, in the most captivating way, to his countrymen. In Germany and France he has excited attention. Translations have been made of his works, essays have been written on his ideas. But in England his name is all but un...
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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 touch with the main thoughts of the Enlightenment, and, by his own literary evolution, created a remarkable, renowned and pessimist poetic work, related to the Romantic era.
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