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Admired for the poetical heights of his Canti , the gentle wit of his prose dialogues and the soul-searching questionings of his Zibaldone ( Notebooks ), Leopardi was also an acute social commentator and a sharp dissector of the human mind. Thoughts - a collection of philosophical... Read Full Overview

Leopardi's Pensieri--a collection of aphorisms in the great European tradition of literary social commentary--focuses on the eternal conflict between knowledge and illusion. W.S. Di Piero offers the first translation into English of the entire text of the Pensieri.

Giacomo Leopardi est un po te, philosophe, crivain, moraliste et philologue italien, consid r comme le plus grand po te de langue italienne du XIXe si cle et une des plus importantes figures de la litt rature mondiale ainsi que du romantisme litt raire. La qualit lyrique de... Read Full Overview

"Pensieri" from Giacomo Leopardi. Poeta, filosofo, scrittore, filologo e glottologo italiano (1798-1837).