Books by Giacomo Leopardi

Includes works that were chosen for their importance to Italian literature and to the international tradition of art and thought Italy has nurtured. In each volume, an Italian text in an authoritative edition is paired with a new facing-page translation supplemented by explanatory notes and a selected bibliography.

Lo 'Zibaldone' e un tesoro inestimabile per chiunque voglia calarsi nella vulcanica, romantica, scientifica ma anche pessimista mente di Giacomo Leopardi, uno dei piu importanti autori della letteratura italiana di tutti i tempi. Eludendo ogni etichetta, lo 'Zibaldone' e un monumento autobiografico, un diario segreto, una raccolta sterminata di appunti, poesie, racconti, aforismi sorprendenti e riflessioni filosofiche di grande attualita.-

Leopardi in prosa. Il suo pensiero slegato da ritmica e struttura, la sua filosofia esente da imposizioni e limiti formali. Sono racconti di stampo ironico e riflessivo, dove la Terra dialoga con la Luna, Ercole si rende disponibile a liberare le spalle di Atlante dal peso del pianeta, Cristoforo Colombo fa due chiacchiere sulla bellezza del mondo con Pietro Gutierrez — sono tante le figure storiche e mitiche che si susseguono nelle 'Operette morali', tante come i dilemmi posti e le riflessioni suscitate. Qual è il nostro posto del mondo? Quale il nostro rapporto con la natura? È la ragione l’unica via per raggiungere la felicità?Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) è stato un poeta e filosofo italiano. Considerato il massimo esponente del Romanticismo italiano, tra le sue opere ricordiamo 'Le operette morali', 'I canti' e 'Lo zibaldone'.

LEOPARDI: GEDANKEN AUS DEM ZIBALDONE

Presented here in a new translation by prize-winning translator J.G. Nichols, Thoughts offers an insight into the worldview of Italy's last great polymath.

"Dialoger" er en samling af små prosastykker, som udgør et fantastisk værk af den italienske romantiks største digter, Giacomo Leopardi.Samlingen består af følgende prosastykker:Døden og ModenDialog mellem en fysiker og en Metafysiker Dialog mellem naturen og SjælenTorquato Tasso og hans GeniusKopernikusDialog mellem Tristan og en VenUddrag af: Dialog mellem Naturen og en IslændingDialog mellem Plotinus og PorphyriusLovsang til Fuglenes PrisGiacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) var en anerkendt forfatter og den italienske romantiks største digter. Han voksede op i forholdsvise trange kår og var ikke begejstret for sin fødeby Recanati. Først i 1822 lykkedes det Leopardi at rejse væk for en stund, for i 1830 endegyldigt at flytte til Napoli.

WORK IS IN FRENCH This book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books reprinted and edited by Hachette Livre, in the framework of a partnership with the National Library of France, providing the opportunity to access old and often rare books from the BnF's heritage funds.

WORK IS IN FRENCH This book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books reprinted and edited by Hachette Livre, in the framework of a partnership with the National Library of France, providing the opportunity to access old and often rare books from the BnF's heritage funds.

An anthology of the work of one of Italy's finest lyric poets.

Revenge-Revenge is so sweet one often wishes to be insulted so as to be able to take revenge, and I don't mean just by an old enemy, but anyone, or even (especially when in a really bad mood) by a friend.-from Passions The extraordinary quality of Giacomo Leopardi's writing and the innovative nature of his thought were never fully recognized in his lifetime. Zibaldone, his 4,500-page intellectual diary-a vast collection of thoughts on philosophy, civilization, literary criticism, linguistics, humankind and its vanities, and other varied topics-remained unpublished until more than a half-century after his death. But shortly before he died, Leopardi began to organize a small, thematic collection of his writings in an attempt to give structure and system to his philosophical musings. Now freshly translated into English by master translator, novelist, and critic Tim Parks, Leopardi's Passions presents 164 entries reflecting the full breadth of human passion. The volume offers a fascinating introduction to Leopardi's arguments and insights, as well as a glimpse of the concerns of thinkers to come, among them Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, Wittgenstein, Gadda, and Beckett.

First published in 1937, this book presents a selection of poems from Leopardi's Canti in the original Italian. Created primarily for university students, the selection was made with the idea of representing as fully as possible all stages of Leopardi's poetic career. The text also contains a detailed introduction, notes and bibliography, all in English.

First published in 1923, this book presents the complete text of Giacomo Leopardi's Canti in the original Italian with facing-page English translation, along with extensive critical notes. The text also contains a biographical introduction, appendices and a detailed bibliography.

These translations of the major poems of Giacomo Leopardi (1798--1837) render into modern English verse the work of a writer who is widely regarded as the greatest lyric poet in the Italian literary tradition. In spite of this reputation, and in spite of a number of nineteenth-and twentieth-century translations, Leopardi's poems have never "e;come over"e; into English in such a way as to guarantee their author a recognition comparable to that of other great European Romantic poets. By catching something of Leopardi's cadences and tonality in a version that still reads as idiomatic modern English (with an occasional Irish or American accent), Leopardi: Selected Poems should win for the Italian poet the wider appreciative audience he deserves. His themes are mutability, landscape, love; his attitude, one of unflinching realism in the face of unavoidable human loss. But the manners of the poems are a unique amalgam of philosophical toughness and the lyrically bittersweet. In a way more pure and distilled than most others in the Western tradition, these poems are truly what Matthew Arnold asked all poetry to be, a "e;criticism of life."e; The translator's aim is to convey something of the profundity and something of the sheer poetic achievement of Leopardi's inestimable Canti.

First published in 1921, as part of the Cambridge Plain Texts series, this volume presents the complete text of Leopardi's Pensieri in the original Italian. A short editorial introduction in English is also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Leopardi and his works.

First published in 1827 and here presented in a new translation by J.G. Nichols along with Thoughts, Leopardi's own selected pearls of wisdom and gems of social observation, this volume will enchant both those who are familiar with and those who are new to the works of Italy's last great polymath.

'So my mind sinks in this immensity:and foundering is sweet in such a sea'Revisited and reorganized over his lifetime, this extraordinary work was described by Leopardi as a 'reliquary' for his ideas, feelings and deepest preoccupations. It encompasses drastic shifts in tone and material, and includes early personal elegies and idylls; radical public poems on history and politics; philosophical satires; his great, dark, despairing odes such as 'To Silvia'; and later masterworks such as 'The Setting of the Moon', written not long before Leopardi's death. Infused with classical allusion and nostalgia, yet disarmingly modern in their spare, meditative style and their sense of alienation and scepticism, the Canti influenced the following two centuries of Western lyric poetry, and inspired thinkers and writers from Schopenhauer and Nietzsche to Beckett and Lowell.Jonathan Galassi's direct new translation sensitively responds to the musicality of the Canti, while his introduction discusses the paradoxes of Leopardi's life and work.