This essential book will change our understanding of nineteenth-century culture. Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837), Italy's first and greatest modern poet, was also a critic, philosopher and philologist.

This collection encapsulates Leopardi's exploration of existential despair, longing, and the sublime beauty of nature, articulated through a mastery of lyrical form that resonates with the Romantic tradition.

"The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi" by Giacomo Leopardi is a collection of works by one of Italy's most celebrated poets.

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This essential book will change our understanding of nineteenth-century culture. This is an extraordinary, epochal publication.

These translations of the major poems of Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) render into modern English the work of a writer who is widely regarded as the greatest lyric poet in the Italian literary tradition.

An introduction provides a historical and critical interpretation of the work. The scholars preparing these volumes hope through Biblioteca ltaliana to point a straight way to the Italian classics.