Giacomo Leopardi

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born

June 29, 1798 in Recanati, Marches, Italy

died

June 14, 1837

gender

male

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Poetry, Literature & Fiction

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Italian scholar, poet, and philosopher, one of the great writers of the 19th century. Leopardi was a contemporary of the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, with whom he shared a similar pessimistic view of life. Leopardi's love problems inspired some of his saddest lyrics. In his late years, when he lived on the slopes of Vesuvius, Leopardi meditated upon the possibility of the total destruction of humankind.

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Average rating: 4.27 · 455 ratings · 30 reviews · 110 distinct works

	Canti by Giacomo Leopardi, Jonathan Galassi (Translator) 4.44 avg rating — 163 ratings — published 1837 — 54 editions	My rating:
	Operette Morali: Essays and Dialogues by Giacomo Leopardi, Giovanni Cecchetti 4.39 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 1832 — 18 editions	My rating:
	Thoughts by Giacomo Leopardi, J.G. Nichols (Translator), Edoardo Albinati (Forward) 4.02 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 1985 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Leopardi: Selected Poems by Giacomo Leopardi (author), Eamon Grennan (Translator) 4.08 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Zibaldone di pensieri 4.45 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2004 — 10 editions	My rating:
	The Poems Of Leopardi by Giacomo Leopardi, Frederick Townsend (Translator) 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1990 — 26 editions	My rating:
	Dialogue Between Fashion And Death 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings	My rating:
	Poesie E Prose 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1966 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Tutte le poesie, tutte le prose e lo Zibaldone 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings	My rating:
	Giacomo Leopardi: Poems Translated With an Introduction by Arturo Vivante by Giacomo Leopardi, Arturo Vivante (Translator) 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1988	My rating:

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Quotes by Giacomo Leopardi

“غالباً، عندما أحدّق بكَ
وأنت صامتٌ هكذا فوق الصحراء المنبسطة
التى تجاور السماء فى دورانها البعيد
أو عندما أراك مع قطيعى الصغير
تلحقُ بى مسافراً سويّةً
وعندما أرى النجوم تتوهج فى السماء
أقول لذاتى مفكراً:
لم كلّ هذه المشاعل؟
وماذا يفعل الهواء اللامتناهى،
وذاك اللامتناهى العميق الهادىء؟
وتلك الوَحدة العظيمة، ماذا تعنى؟
وأنا ماذا أكون؟”
― Giacomo Leopardi

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“Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.”
― Giacomo Leopardi

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“What do you do there, moon, in the sky? Tell me what you do, silent moon. When evening comes you rise and go contemplating wastelands; then you set.”
― Giacomo Leopardi

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