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Title:
Canti / Giacomo Leopardi ; translated and annotated by Jonathan Galassi.
Author:
Leopardi, Giacomo, 1798-1837, author.

Galassi, Jonathan, translator.
Publication Information:
New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010.
Call Number:
PQ4708 .A2 2010
Abstract:
Giacomo Leopardi is Italy's greatest modern poet, the first European writer to portray and examine the self in a way that feels familiar to us today. A great classical scholar and patriot, he explored metaphysical loneliness in entirely original ways. Though he died young, his influence was enormous, and it is no exaggeration to say that all modern poetry, not only in Italian, derives in some way from his work. Galassi, whose translations of Eugenio Montale have been widely acclaimed, has produced a strong, fresh, direct version of this great poet that offers English-language readers a new approach to Leopardi.
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9780374235031
Physical Description:
xxv, 498 pages ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Canti. To Italy -- On the monument to Dante -- To Angelo Mai -- At the wedding of his sister Paolina -- To a champion at football -- Brutus -- To spring -- Hymn to the patriarchs -- Sappho's last song -- First love -- The solitary thrush -- Infinity -- The evening of the holiday -- To the moon -- The dream -- The solitary life -- Consalvo -- To his lady -- To Count Carlo Pepoli -- The reawakening -- To Silvia -- The recollections -- Night song of a wandering shepherd in Asia -- The calm after the storm -- Saturday night in the village -- The dominant idea -- Love and death -- To himself -- Aspasia -- On an ancient funeral relief -- On the portrait of a beautiful lady -- Palinode to Marchese Gino Capponi -- The setting of the moon -- Broom -- Imitation -- Scherzo -- Fragments. "Listen, Melisso ..." Lurking here around the threshold I -- The light of day had died out in the west From the Greek of Simonides -- By the same author.
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Uniform Title:
Canti. English
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