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18%OFFGiacomo Leopardi - Canti - 9780141193878 - 9780141193878
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Canti

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Description for Canti paperback. Covers radical public poems of Leopardi on history and politics; philosophical satires; his great, dark, despairing odes such as "To Silvia"; and, later masterworks such as "The Setting of the Moon", written not long before Leopardi's death. Translator(s): Galassi, Jonathan. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 360.

'So my mind sinks in this immensity:
and foundering is sweet in such a sea'

Revisited and reorganized over his lifetime, this extraordinary work was described by Leopardi as a 'reliquary' for his ideas, feelings and deepest preoccupations. It 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, despairing odes such as 'To Silvia'; and later masterworks such as 'The Setting of the Moon', written not long before Leopardi's death. Infused with classical allusion and nostalgia, yet disarmingly modern in their spare, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141193878
SKU
9780141193878
Shipping Time
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About Giacomo Leopardi
GIACOMO LEOPARDI (1798-1837), Italy¹s 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, will be published in Penguin Classics in 2012. JONATHAN GALASSI has also translated the poetry of Eugenio Montale and Primo Levi and has ... Read more

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