“s article inviting Italians to stop looking to the past, but instead study the works of foreigners, so as to reinvigorate their literature. Leopardi maintained that”
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Giacomo Leopardi
Count Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi was an Italian poet, philosopher, essayist, and philologist. Considered the greatest Italian poet of the 19th century and one of the greatest authors of his time worldwide, as well as one of the principals of literary Romanticism, his constant reflection on existence and on the human condition—of sensuous and materialist inspirati…
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culture · Italian poet, philosopher, and writer (1798–1837) · writer · poet · philosopher · philologist · translator · essayist · literary critic · also Giacomo Leopardi, Giacomo, conte Leopardi, Cosimo Papareschi, Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi, Giàcomo Leopardi, Leopardi
Born 29 June 1798 · Died 14 June 1837 · Q172599
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 1 entry
il Giornale: Giacomo Leopardi, 188 anni dopo resta il mistero sulla sua morte: cosa sappiamo
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2024· 2 entries
Dilei: Giacomo Leopardi, cosa sappiamo della nuova serie Rai di Sergio Rubini
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Fanpage.it: Giacomo Leopardi, finite le riprese della fiction Rai: “Il poeta oltre la malinconia e la solitudine”
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2023· 2 entries
Il Mattino: Giacomo Leopardi, ritratto del giovane inquieto
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Il Sussidiario: GIACOMO LEOPARDI, 225ESIMO ANNIVERSARIO NASCITA/ Poetica e pensiero del maestro di Recanati
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2022· 1 entry
Il Sussidiario: Giacomo Leopardi/ Rinvenuto un suo manoscritto inedito a Napoli: era appena 16enne
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2020· 2 entries
Il Sole 24 Ore: Il mondo di Giacomo Leopardi: didattica a distanza con il Giovane favoloso
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Tom's Hardware: Giacomo Leopardi: L'infinito, recensione. Un breve sguardo oltre la siepe
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2019· 1 entry
Fanpage.it: L’infinito di Giacomo Leopardi compie 200 anni: il 28 maggio come data simbolica
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2016· 1 entry
Repubblica: 50 motivi per amare Giacomo Leopardi
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2013· 1 entry
Wrote that "Leopardi's subtle sensibility eludes conventional intellectual categories and the true achievement of this subversive genius has been little recognised [
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1937· 1 entry
After the republication of the original text enriched with notes and indices by the literary critic Francesco Flora, that the work definitively took on the name by which it is known today
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1898· 2 entries
His tomb was moved to the Parco Virgiliano and declared a national monument
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With the original title of Pensieri di varia filosofia e di bella letteratura (Miscellaneous Thoughts on Philosophy and Good Literature)
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1845· 1 entry
Ranieri published the definitive edition of the Canti according to the will of the author
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1842· 1 entry
Provoking a universal reaction of outrage and condemnation, as much for the cutting and anti-heroic representation of the events of the Risorgimento as for the numerous materialistic philosophical digressions
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1837· 5 entries
Died 1837-06-14.
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“Quando um homem concebe o amor, o mundo inteiro se dissipa aos seus olhos, ele não vê nada além do ser amado.”
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“Aquele que não tem um objetivo, raramente sente prazer em qualquer empreendimento.”
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“As lições da desgraça são às sumas lições da vida.”
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“Il piacere è sempre o passato o futuro, non mai presente.”
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1836· 1 entry
While staying near Torre del Greco in a villa on the hillside of Vesuvius, Leopardi wrote his moral testament as a poet, La Ginestra ("The Broom"), also known as Il Fiore del Deserto ("The flower of the desert")
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1835· 1 entry
Was intended to be satirical (he first believes that man is unhappy and miserable, but now progress has made him reconsider his position), but the thought of the inevitable destruction to which nature condemns everything
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1834· 1 entry
Aspasia emerges, like Consalvo, from the painful experience of desperate and unrequited love for Fanny Targioni Tozzetti
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1832· 1 entry
Inspired by a 17th-century poem by Girolamo Graziani titled Il Conquisto di Granata ("The Capture of Granada"), Leopardi wrote Consalvo
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1831· 1 entry
Leopardi wrote Il pensiero dominante ("The Dominating Thought"), which exalts love as a living or vitalizing force in itself, even when it is unrequited
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1830· 3 entries
After sixteen months of "notte orribile" (awful night), he accepted a generous offer from his Tuscan friends, which enabled him to leave Recanati
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Colletta offered him a chance to return to Florence, thanks to a financial contribution from the "Friends of Tuscany"
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Leopardi received a letter from Pietro Colletta, nowadays interpreted as a declaration of masonic brotherhood
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1829· 2 entries
Leopardi wrote La quiete dopo la tempesta ("The Calm After the Storm"), in which the light and reassuring verses at the beginning evolve into the dark desperation of the concluding strophe, where pleasure and joy are con
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At Recanati, where he was constrained to return, against his wishes, because of increasing infirmity and financial difficulties, the poet wrote Le Ricordanze ("Memories"), perhaps the poem where autobiographical elements
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1828· 3 entries
Leopardi composed perhaps his most famous poem, A Silvia ("To Silvia")
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Leopardi returned to lyric poetry with Il Risorgimento ("Resurgence")
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Physically infirm and worn out by work, Leopardi refused the offer of a professorship in Bonn or Berlin, made by the Ambassador of Prussia in Rome
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1827· 1 entry
In Florence, Leopardi met Alessandro Manzoni, although they did not see things eye to eye
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1824· 1 entry
A bookstore owner, Stella, called him to Milan, asking him to write several works, including Crestomazia della prosa e della poesia italiane
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1823· 1 entry
Wrote the canto Alla sua donna ("To his woman"), in which he expresses his ardent aspiration for a feminine ideal which, with love, might render life beautiful and desirable
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1822· 1 entry
Was briefly able to stay in Rome with his uncle, he was deeply disappointed by its atmosphere of corruption and decadence and by the hypocrisy of the Church
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1819· 1 entry
The poet attempted to escape from his oppressive domestic situation, by travelling to Rome
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1818· 2 entries
Published Il primo amore and began writing a diary which he would continue for fifteen years (1817–1832), the Zibaldone
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But he was caught by his father and brought home
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1817· 3 entries
The classicist Pietro Giordani arrived at the Leopardi estate
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Fell in love with Gertrude Cassi Lazzari and wrote Memorie del primo amore ("Memories of first love")
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Had begun a prolific correspondence, his distancing from the conservatism of his father became even sharper
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1816· 2 entries
Leopardi published Discorso sopra la vita e le opere di Frontone ("Discourse on the life and works of Fronto")
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The idylls Le rimembranze and Inno a Nettuno ("Hymn to Neptune") were published
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1798· 1 entry
Born 1798-06-29.
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