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Canti (Translation)
[Paperback - 2010]
giacomo leopardi
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Sub-category: Poetry
Additional Category: Classics
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Usa | ISBN: 9780374533052 | Pages: 498
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A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 Giacomo Leopardi is Italy's greatest modern poet, the first European writer to portray and examine the self in a way that feels familiar to us today. A great classical scholar and patriot, he explored metaphysical loneliness in entirely original ways. Though he died young, his influence was enormous, and it is no exaggeration to say that all modern poetry, not only in Italian, derives in some way from his work. Leopardi's poetry is notoriously difficult to translate, and he has been less well known to English-language readers than his central significance for his own culture might suggest. Now Jonathan Galassi, whose translations of Eugenio Montale have been widely acclaimed, has produced a strong, fresh, direct version of this great poet that offers English-language readers a new approach to Leopardi. Galassi has contributed an informative introduction and notes that provide a sense of Leopardi's sources and ideas. This is an essential book for anyone who wants to understand the roots of modern lyric poetry.

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Italian scholar, poet, essayist and philosopher, one of the great writers of the 19th century.Leopardi's love problems inspired some of his saddest lyrics. Despite having lived in a small town, Leopardi was in touch with the main ideas of the Enlightenment movement. His literary evolution turned him into one of the well known Romantic poets.In his late years, when he lived in an ambiguous relationship with his friendAntonio Ranierion the slopes of Vesuvius, Leopardi meditated upon the possibility of the total destruction of humankind.Leopardi was a contemporary of the German philosopherArthur Schopenhauer, with whom he shared a similarly pessimistic view of life. The latter praised Leopardi's philosophical thoughts onThe World as Will and Representation.

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