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Giacomo Leopardi. Count Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi (US: / ˈdʒɑːkəmoʊ ˌliːəˈpɑːrdi, - ˌleɪə -/; [3][4] Italian: [ˈdʒaːkomo leoˈpardi]; 29 June 1798 – 14 June 1837) was an Italian philosopher, poet, essayist, and philologist.
Oct 5, 2009 · October 5, 2009. It is hard to understand how someone can be “Matta e disperatissima” in the beauty of Le Marche. Until you read Leopardi – the poet of Recanati. Recanati near Macerata is a pretty postcard town with a medieval tower, 17 churches and monasteries, a Palazzo Vescovile and surrounding wine fields on beautiful rolling hills.
Nov 30, 2013 · Giacomo Leopardi was born in 1798 in Recanati (Marche), a village near the central Adriatic Coast south of Ancona, then part of the Papal States. Leopardi’s father, Count Monaldo Leopardi, was an intellectual with a large library, apparently the second largest private library in Europe at the time, and a prolific, if unheralded, writer.
- Luciano Mangiafico
Jun 14, 2017 · Giacomo Leopardi, depicted in a portrait in 1820. One of Italy’s greatest 19th century writers, Giacomo Leopardi, died on this day in 1837 in Naples. A brilliant scholar and philosopher, Leopardi led an unhappy life in Recanati in the Papal States, blighted by poor health, but he left as a legacy his superb lyric poetry.
Giacomo Leopardi (born June 29, 1798, Recanati, Papal States—died June 14, 1837, Naples) was an Italian poet, scholar, and philosopher whose outstanding scholarly and philosophical works and superb lyric poetry place him among the great writers of the 19th century. A precocious, congenitally deformed child of noble but apparently insensitive ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
In November 1822 Leopardi was able to leave Recanati for the first time and at last go to Rome, where he stayed till April 1823 as guest of his uncle Carlo Antici. The stay, for which Leopardi had nourished great expectations, was quite a delusion (also from a practical point of view: he tried to find employment, but in vane; and managed only to publish some studi filologici or philological ...
by giacomo leopardi. translated by kathleen baldwin, richard dixon, david gibbons, ann goldstein, gerard slowey, martin thom, and pamela williams. edited by michael caesar and franco d’intino. farrar, straus and giroux, 2,592 pages, $75. I n the history of Italian literature, arguably only Dante occupies a more exalted position than Giacomo ...
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