Giacomo Leopardi (1798–1837)
Author of Canti
About the Author
Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi, son of Count Monaldo and Countess Adelaide, was born in Recanati, Italy, on June 29, 1798. Leopardi enjoyed the company of his brother Carlo and sister Paolina, with whom he played such games as dressing up in clerical wear and saying mass, or acting in historical show more dramas. Encouraged to learn by his parents, Giacomo Leopardi was able to read and write Greek by the age of 15. It was his ability at poetry that kept him sane when, at 18, he lost most of his eyesight and developed a severely curved spine. Leopardi fell in love with his married cousin Countess Geltrude Cassi, with whom he had a powerful affair, in 1817. Nine years later, Leopardi fell in love with yet another married countess, Teresa Carniani Malvezzi, whose husband put an end to the affair. Leopardi channeled his anguish over his physical condition and emotionally exhausting romances into his poetry, fueled by the enthusiasm of his mentor, Pietro Giordani, and by the financial aid of such persons as publisher Antonio Stella, who paid Leopardi for his editing of works by classical writers. Although his poetry is usually grim and gloomy, his attention to detail with outdoor scenes is praised by critics, such as in his shortly-before-death poem, "The Broom," about a flower's growth. Giacomo Leopardi died on June 15, 1837, in Naples, Italy. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Giacomo Leopardi
Canti 27 copies
The Canti With a Selection of His Prose: With a Selection of His Prose (Centenary Edition) (1994) 23 copies
Poesías 8 copies
Thoughts ; and, The broom 8 copies
Valda skrifter 5 copies
Prose 5 copies
Opuscula moralia: Oder vom Lernen über unsere Leiden zu lachen (Die Andere Bibliothek, Band 389) (2017) 4 copies
Ich bin ein Seher: Gedichte, italienisch-deutsch; kleine moralische Werke; Zibaldone, Gedanken zur Literatur (1991) 3 copies
Delphi Collected Works of Giacomo Leopardi (Illustrated) (Delphi Poets Series Book 87) (2019) 2 copies
Pesmi 2 copies
POESIE E PROSE 2 copies
Canti: con note e prefazioni dell'autore, argomenti e abbozzi di poesie, scritti e frammenti autobiografici (1999) 2 copies
Lettere scelte 2 copies
Gedichte 2 copies
I canti e prose scelte 2 copies
IDILLI 1 copy
Şarkılar 1 copy
Operette morali con i Pensieri in appendice (I Grandi Classici Multimediali) (Italian Edition) (2017) 1 copy
Philosofables 1 copy
أفكار 1 copy
Cantos y otros textos 1 copy
De la poesía italiana 1 copy
MI VIVA SIN ESPERANZA 1 copy
Il perpetuo canto 1 copy
Этика и эстетика 1 copy
diVersi 1 copy
Opere [Tome II] La letteratura italiana, storia e testi, volume 52 — Author — 1 copy
10.- Obras 1 copy
1: [Zibaldone di pensieri] 1 copy
2: [Zibaldone di pensieri] 1 copy
Diálogo entre la Moda y la Muerte: Y otras "Operette Morali" (Largo Recorrido) (Spanish Edition) (2016) 1 copy
3: [Zibaldone di pensieri] 1 copy
4: [Zibaldone di pensieri] 1 copy
Memorie e pensieri d' amore 1 copy
ΣΤΟΧΑΣΜΟΙ 1 copy
“The Infinite” 1 copy
Dijalozi i eseji 1 copy
Giacomo Leopardi. 1 copy
La vitae le lettere 1 copy
Prosas satíricas y poéticas 1 copy
Giacomo Leopardi 1 copy
Poesie varie e traduzione 1 copy
Tutte le opere, volume 1 1 copy
A Silvia 1 copy
Poesie luny 1 copy
Operette morali d'Isocrate 1 copy
Scritti vari 1 copy
Dei pensieri 1 copy
Quattro canti 1 copy
Werke 1 copy
I canti e altre poesie 1 copy
Vita, poetica, opere scelte 1 copy
Storia di un'anima: memorie 1 copy
A Leopardi reader 1 copy
Zibaldone. Tomo primo 1 copy
Zibaldone. Tomo terzo 1 copy
Zibaldone. Tomo secondo 1 copy
Epistolario Vol. 4 1826-1827 1 copy
Epistolario Vol. 1 1810-1819 1 copy
Epistolario Vol. 2 1820-1823 1 copy
Epistolario Vol. 3 1823-1826 1 copy
Epistolario Vol. 5 1827-1830 1 copy
Epistolario Vol. 6 1830-1837 1 copy
Appressamento della morte : edizione critica — Author — 1 copy
Copernic 1 copy
Attraverso lo Zibaldone 1 copy
Canti e Prose Scelti 1 copy
Mici opere morale 1 copy
Canti e Versioni di Giacomo Leopardi: Publicati con Numerose Varianti di su Gli Autografi Recanatesi (Classic Reprint)… (2017) 1 copy
Lettere da Roma 1 copy
Arte e verità 1 copy
ДНЕВНИК ПРВЕ ЉУБАВИ & МИСЛИ 1 copy
Associated Works
Bij de uitverkorenen - vertalingen uit het oeuvre van geliefde dichters — Contributor — 2 copies
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- Legal name
- Leopardi, Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro
- Birthdate
- 1798-06-29
- Date of death
- 1837-06-14
- Burial location
- Parco Virgiliano, Naples, Italy
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Papal States
- Country (for map)
- Italy
- Birthplace
- Recanati, Marche, Papal States
- Place of death
- Naples, Kingdom of Naples
- Cause of death
- heart failure
- Places of residence
- Recanati, Papal States (birth ∙ now Italy)
Naples, Kingdom of Naples
Rome, Papal States - Education
- self-educated
- Occupations
- poet
philosopher
scholar
translator
dramatist
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