Category: Poetry
Giacomo Leopardi, the greatest Italian poet of the Nineteenth Century, was, born at Recanati, a town of the March of Ancona, on the twenty-ninth of June, 1798; the eldest son of Count Monaldo Leopardi, and Adelaide, his wife, daughter of the Marquis Antici. He had four brother...
Giacomo Leopardi, the greatest Italian poet of the Nineteenth Century, was, born at Recanati, a town of the March of Ancona, on the twenty-ninth of June, 1798; the eldest son of...
2. Part 2We have already mentioned his classical attainments. They are attested by a vast quantity of works, most of which were produced when he was in his teens. Wonderful monuments of...
7. Part 7Wherefore, O Moon, art thou on high? O say, Thou silent Moon serene! At night thou dost proceed, Our waste beholding, then dost sink to rest. Hast thou ne'er weary been Of repur...
6. Part 6When on his roost the cock begins to crow And beat his wings; and to his work proceeds The tiller of the soil; and on the dews The rising sun his flashing rays doth cast: Upon t...
4. Part 4Dauntless Italian! why dost thou not rest From waking in the tomb Our old forefathers? And why bid them hold Discourse unto this age so lost in gloom Of worn exhaustion? Wherefo...
3. Part 3XXVIII. "A Se Stesso" is the only poem of Leopardi that is from beginning to end utterly gloomy, bitter and despairing. All his other poems have at least glimpses of beauty and...
5. Part 5Thou first, O father of the human race, Didst see the sparkling of revolving spheres, The new-born generations of the fields, The breezes roving o'er the infant trees, When towe...
8. Part 8Unhappy where we gaze, Unhappy where we turn or where we rest, Are man's disastrous days! It pleaseth thee that void And utterly destroyed Should be our youthful hope; that seas...