Moral Tales Operette Morali

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Carcanet New Press, 1983 - Fiction - 265 pages

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Contents

Preface
7
Translators Note
32
The Dialogue of Hercules and Atlas
46
Copyright

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Common terms and phrases

ancient animals argument beautiful believe better birds century Chapter Cicero civilized contrary Copernicus creatures dead death delight dialogue Diogenes Laertius earth edition ELEANDER Epictetus example excellence fact fame FARFARELLO feel Fubini Galimberti Giacomo Leopardi GNOME Gods greater happens happiness Hercules honour hope human race Icelander illusions imagination immortals infinite irony Jove kind knowledge laugh less live MALAMBRUNO mankind matter mean Metaphysician mind misfortunes MOON MUMMY nature never once Operette morali opinion Orig Ottonieri Parini PASSER-BY PEDLAR perfect person Petrarch philosophers PHYSICIST Pietro Giordani planets Plato pleasure Plotinus Plutarch poems poet Porphyry praise Prometheus reason Recanati RUYSCH seems sense Socrates soul speak species spirit Strato of Lampsacus TASSO Telesilla tell theme things thought TIMANDER Torquato Tasso Tristan true truth unhappiness universe Vittorio Alfieri whole wish writing written Zibaldone

About the author (1983)

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 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.

Bibliographic information

TitleMoral Tales Operette Morali
Volume 1 of Works, Giacomo Leopardi
AuthorGiacomo Leopardi
Translated byPatrick Creagh
PublisherCarcanet New Press, 1983
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedApr 1, 2008
ISBN0856354201, 9780856354205
Length265 pages
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Fiction / Literary
  
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