Giacomo Leopardi
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Giacomo Leopardi (Recanati June 29, 1798 – Naples June 14, 1837) was an Italian poet, essayist, philosopher, and philologist. He is considered one of the greatest poets of the 19th century. Even if he lived in a secluded town in the ultra-conservative Papal States, he came in touch with the main thoughts of the Enlightenment, and, by his own literary evolution, created a remarkable, renowned and pessimist poetic work,the Infinite
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The Palazzo Leopardi in Recanati
Portrait of the italian great writer Giacomo Leopardi.
Leopardi morto - peinture - 1837
The tomb of Leopardi at Parco Virgiliano, Naples
The original tombstone for Leopardi from the Church of San Vitale
Puerili e abbozzi vari, a collection of Leopardi's early writings from 1809
Original manuscript of L'Infinito
Sappho on a fifth-century BC red-figure vase by the Brygos Painter
Cover of the Operette morali in the last edition of Leopardi's Works in his lifetime, Naples 1835
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