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Count Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi (US: / ˈ dʒ ɑː k ə m oʊ ˌ l iː ə ˈ p ɑːr d i,-ˌ l eɪ ə-/ JAH-kə-moh LEE-ə-PAR-dee, - LAY-, [3] [4] Italian: [ˈdʒaːkomo leoˈpardi]; 29 June 1798 – 14 June 1837) was an Italian philosopher, poet, essayist, and philologist.
Small Moral Works (Italian: Operette morali [opeˈrette moˈraːli]) is a collection of 24 writings (dialogues and fictional essays) by the Italian poet and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi, written between 1824 and 1832.
After the death of her son, Iris Origo began a writing career with a well-received biography of Giacomo Leopardi, published in 1935. A reviewer noted that "an unobtrusive scholarship gives alimentation to a deft power in narrative, and the style is always alive and sometimes very beautiful."
Giacomo Leopardi. The phrase Leopardian poetics refers to the poetical theories of Giacomo Leopardi. These were not a single theory, but evolved dynamically during the years of his creativity, from his adolescence to his premature death. Leopardi often wrote about poetry in general and about his own idea of poetry, of its language and scope.
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The word may also refer specifically to the book of philosophical reflections by the nineteenth-century Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi, the Zibaldone di pensieri often called simply The Zibaldone. Furthermore, there is a twice-yearly German-language journal entitled Zibaldone.
She was a salon hostess and she was a friend of Vincenzo Monti, Shelley, Antonio Canova, [2] Giacomo Leopardi and the archeologist Jean Baptiste d'Agincourt. As a young woman she married the jurist Domenico Dionigi, a Count of the Lateran Palace and aristocrat from Ferrara. They had seven children.
In February 1817, Giacomo Leopardi sent three copies of his own personal translation of the Virgilian Aeneid to Angelo Mai, Vincenzo Monti and Pietro Giordani, the leading exponents of Italian classicism. While the first two confined themselves to a polite reply, the Piacentine author immediately made himself available for interview.