Canti, 9780141193878
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Leopardi’s timeless poems explore despair, beauty, and the human condition.

Canti

the poems of leopardi

$43.11

  • Paperback

    528 pages

  • Release Date

    12 December 2010

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Summary

Canti: A Reliquary of the Soul

‘So my mind sinks in this immensity-and foundering is sweet in such a sea’

Revisited and reorganized over his lifetime, Giacomo Leopardi’s Canti was described as a ‘reliquary’ for his ideas, feelings, and deepest preoccupations. This extraordinary work encompasses drastic shifts in tone and material, and includes early personal elegies and idylls; radical public poems on history and politics; philosophical satires; his great, dark, des…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141193878
ISBN-10:0141193875
Author:Giacomo Leopardi, Jonathan Galassi
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:528
Release Date:12 December 2010
Weight:359g
Dimensions:197mm x 129mm x 22mm
About The Author

Giacomo Leopardi

GIACOMO LEOPARDI (1798-1837), Italy’s first and greatest modern poet, was also a critic, philosopher, and philologist. His enormous Zibaldone, or philosophical and critical notebook, which many consider one of the great books of the 19th century.

JONATHAN GALASSI has also translated the poetry of Eugenio Montale and Primo Levi and has published several books of his own poems.

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