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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.
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 ...
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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.
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.
Count Giacomo Leopardi, the Italian poet and prose writer, was one of five children born to Count Monaldo Leopardi and Marquise Adelaide Antici, in Recanati, near Ancona. His brief and anguished existence was plagued both by continuous illnesses (among them rachitis, which made him a hunchback) and the bigotry of his parents, who refused him ...
For years Leopardi secluded himself in his father’s library, studying and writing constantly. At the age of fourteen he wrote Pompeo in Egitto (Pompey in Egypt) an anti-Caesarean manifesto, and went onto writing various philological works until 1816, which marked a turning point in Leopardi’s life which he called “the passage from erudition to the beautiful.”
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Giacomo Leopardi, an Italian poet, scholar, and philosopher, was born on June 29, 1798, in Recanati, Papal States, where he was raised. The eldest son of aristocratic—albeit, not wealthy—parents, the precocious Leopardi spent much of his childhood in his father’s library. His father, Count Monaldo Leopardi, was a conservative nobleman, holding beliefs with which Giacomo would grow to ...
