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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.
A Silvia is the expression of a profound and tragic love of life itself, which Leopardi, despite all the suffering, the psychological torments and the negative philosophizing, could not suppress in his spirit. This poem demonstrates why Leopardi's so-called "nihilism" does not run deep enough to touch the well-spring of his poetry: his love of ...
Leopardi appreciates Fontenelle for his "leggerezza" (lightness), while in Dialogo della Natura e di un Islandese, one can perceive some of Voltaire's cynicism. Among the Italians, Leopardi admired Ariosto, whose "comical style" he imitated in Dialogo della Terra e della Luna. The extensive knowledge of a great number of works, both ...
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.
The film tells the story of the short life of the great Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi.He was a noble, born in Recanati, and soon began to study Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic and English in the rich library of his palace that his father built.
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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.
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