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	Giacomo Leopardi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Giacomo Leopardi, Count (June 29, 1798 – June 14, 1837) was a major Italian Romantic poet, often considered alongside Dante and Petrarch as one of Italy's greatest poets and thinkers.
		Giacomo's loneliness, made worse by the formality of family manners (from the age of six, he was made to dress in fl like his father), drove him into his father's library, where he read widely.
		Leopardi, who had always been considered as a pure, lyrical poet in the vein of Keats or Dickinson, was rediscovered in the 1980's as a non-systematic philosopher, admired by Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche and Walter Benjamin.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Giacomo_Leopardi (2188 words)

	Leopardi, Unabomber
		Leopardi graduated from the Icelander's early theory that society is the major problem facing the individual, moving, as it were, from social pessimism to cosmic pessimism; the Unabomber, instead, appeared stuck in that romantic anti-sociality.
		Ironically, Leopardi's and Kaczynski's polemic against the technological offshoots of humanistic philosophy is fueled by a deeper spirit of humanism, another vision of humanity which is alarmed by the threats that enlightenment culture poses to its potential.
		Leopardi and Kaczynski are convinced that much of what is done in the name of the greatest happiness of the greatest number goes tragically against the interests of human nature.
	www.humnet.ucla.edu /humnet/italian/faculty/harrison/Essays/Leopardi.htm (2600 words)

	GIACOMO, COUNT LEOPARDI - LoveToKnow Article on GIACOMO, COUNT LEOPARDI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Leopardi came forth a Hellene, not merely a consummate Greek scholar, but penetrated with the classical conception of life, and a master of antique form and style.
		Leopardis invention is equal to Lucians and his only drawback in comparison with his exemplar is that, while the latters campaign against pretence and imposture commands hearty sympathy, Leopardis philosophical creed is a repulsive hedonism in the disguise of austere stoicism.
		The decay of Leopardis constitution continued; he became dropsical; and a sudden crisis of his malady, unanticipated by himself alone, put an end to his life-long sufferings on the 15th of June 1837.
	98.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LE/LEOPARDI_GIACOMO_COUNT.htm (3151 words)

	little blue light - Giacomo Leopardi
		Leopardi was born June 29, 1798 in the Italian backwater town of Recanati to family of petty aristocrats.
		Leopardi referred to himself as a 'walking sepulcher' and was uncomfortable with the effect his ailing appearance had on people.
		Leopardi thought the intellectuals and scholars he met there were shallow and unimpressive and found the vastness of the city inherently alienating.
	www.littlebluelight.com /lblphp/intro.php?ikey=16 (1868 words)

	Quilldrivers \| Giacomo Leopardi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Leopardi described Recanati as "the deadest and most ignorant city of the Marches."(7) He also referred to it variously as a prison, a den, a cave, and an inferno.
		Leopardi had erratic eating habits, a penchant for ice cream, rarely washed or changed clothes, ridiculed those he disliked however much they may have admired him, and spoke against both the liberal secular vision of the world and the consolations of religion.
		Giacomo Leopardi died of edema on 14 June 1837 at the age of thirty-eight in the villa Ferrigni on the slopes of Vesuvius.
	www.quilldrivers.com /leo.html (2605 words)

	Leopardi and Italian poetry
		Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837), the greatest Italian poet since Dante, loved what is not directly given in life.
		Leopardi incorporated words or phrases from earlier poets, but he vitalized his meaning by scrupulous attention to sound and rhythm while employing the simplest of vocabularies.
		The cornerstones were remembrance and infinity, and through these Leopardi opened the door to modernism's divorce from social obligations, to a poesie pure that anticipated the Symbolists.
	www.poetry-portal.com /poets24.html (652 words)

	Giacomo Leopardi: "La Ginestra" - Italian Literature on Tape
		Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) was one of the great Italian poets of the 19th century for the depth of his thought, his acute understanding of psychology and the power of his poetic expression.
		Leopardi's characteristic existential anguish reflects the general European spiritual and philosophical crisis that marked the end of the Enlightenment and the rise of Romanticism.
		Leopardi's lyrical poems sing of illusion, love, beauty and the noble human emotions as a comfort against the agonizing process of living and an affirmation of Man's inherent dignity.
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	Giacomo Leopardi
		The publication of these pieces widened the breach between Leopardi and his father, a well-meaning but apparently dull and apathetic man, who had lived into the 19th century without imbibing any of its spirit, and who provoked his son's contempt by a superstition unpardonable in a scholar of real learning.
		Leopardi's invention is equal to Lucian's and his only drawback in comparison with his exemplar is that, while the latter's campaign against pretense and imposture commands hearty sympathy, Leopardi's philosophical creed is a repulsive hedonism in the disguise of austere stoicism.
		The decay of Leopardi's constitution continued; he became dropsical; and a sudden crisis of his malady, unanticipated by himself alone, put an end to his lifelong sufferings on the 15th of June 1837.
	www.nndb.com /people/024/000094739 (1556 words)

	Giacomo Leopardi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Giacomo Leopardi, one of the greatest Italian poets of all times, was born in Recanati, a town in the Marches not far from the Adriatic coast.
		At the age of twelve Giacomo was so erudite that his private ecclesiastical tutor had to admit that his own scholarship was inferior to his pupil's and that consequently there was nothing more he could teach him.
		Leopardi called "L'infinito" an "idyll", a definition that perfectly fits the charm and suggestive power of this superb poem, which, to quote Renato Poggioli, "makes familiar and almost dear to the heart of man the alien metaphysical vision of a universe ruled by laws other than those of life and death."
	www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk /~mdt26/poems/leopardi2.html (417 words)

	THIRD GENERATION
		Giacomo Leopardi was born on 17 May 1877 in Sulmona, Italy.
		Giacomo and Catherine were married in New York November 1901 and moved to Thomas, West Virginia.
		In 1915 Giacomo, his wife, and family moved to the southern part of the state, McAlpin, West Virginia, near Beckley and remained until the end of their lives.Their plight is discussed in the Leeber Saga.
	www.leeber.net /database/d5.htm (391 words)

	Alibris: Giacomo Leopardi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		These translations of the major poems of Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) render into modern English verse the work of a writer who is widely regarded as the greatest lyric poet in the Italian literary tradition.
		Leopardi's themes include man's unquenchable desire for happiness, love as a supreme illusion, death, and the necessity of accepting fate--all framed within the cosmos of man's home.
		by Leopardi, Giacomo, and Rigoni, Mario Andrea, and Damiani, Rolando
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Giacomo_Leopardi (470 words)

	Leopardi, Giacomo. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Devoted to the study of the classics and philosophy from early childhood, although plagued by illness and physical and spiritual frustration, Leopardi became one of the most formidable linguists, thinkers, and writers of his time.
		He spoke with romantic yearning for physical and spiritual oneness, even as he pointed to the unbridgeable gulf that separated people from one another and from salvation.
		Leopardi was a liberal and agnostic at a time when independence of thought was dangerous in Italy.
	www.bartleby.com /65/le/Leopardi.html (247 words)

	Poet: Giacomo Leopardi - All poems of Giacomo Leopardi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Giacomo Leopardi was born of an aristocratic family in Recanati.
		Giacomo Leopardi was born in Recanati, Papal States.
		Giacomo Leopardi Giacomo Leopardi nacque a Recanati il 29 giugno 1798, primogenito della più illustre casata del piccolo centro marchigiano.
	www.poemhunter.com /giacomo-leopardi/poet-3116 (257 words)

	Giacomo Leopardi -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Leopardi's genius, his frustrated hopes, and his pain found their best outlet in his poetry, which is admired for its brilliance, intense melancholy, and effortless musicality.
		Italian poet, essayist, literary critic, and journalist whose traditional, lyrical verse was influenced by the poet Giacomo Leopardi.
		Italian composer Giacomo Carissimi was considered one of the greatest Italian composers of the 17th century.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9314960 (461 words)

	MSN Encarta - Leopardi
		Giacomo Talegardo Francesco Di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi (1798-1837), Italian poet and scholar, whose work is characterized by an intensely pessimistic point of view—alleviated in some of the lyrics by his exquisite sensibility and perfection of form.
		Leopardi first attracted public notice with his patriotic ode “All'Italia” (To Italy, 1818), but today he is known as the greatest lyric poet of 19th-century Italy.
		One of Leopardi's first poems, a visionary work imitative of medieval verse, was Appressamento della morte (Approach of Death, 1816; pub.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761561858/Leopardi.html (264 words)

	little blue light - Giacomo Leopardi - Criticism
		Giacomo Leopardi (1798 - 1837) is widely considered the greatest Italian poet since Dante.
		Giacomo Leopardi : proceedings of the congress held at the University of California, Los Angeles by Giovanni Cecchetti
		In their texts, Heine and Leopardi interweave biblical references, historical events, and personal encounters with their narrative and juxtapose them to a contemporary situation, thus presenting the reader with their interpretation of an existential experience.
	www.littlebluelight.com /lblphp/crit.php?ikey=16 (333 words)

	Marche Voyager - Life of Leopardi
		Giacomo Leopardi, one of 19th Century Italy's greatest poets, was born in Recanati in 1798.
		His father, Count Monaldo Leopardi, was an impoverished aristocrat who had withdrawn from the world into the safety of his library, and encouraged his son to follow his example.
		But the effect of his self-imposed imprisonment upon his health was disastrous - his eyesight began to fail and he developed curvature of the spine which gradually reduced him to an invalid.
	www.le-marche.com /Marche/html/leopardi2.htm (288 words)

	Welcome to Carcanet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Giacomo Leopardi was born into a noble, although impoverished, family in 1798 in Recanati in central Italy.
		Finally breaking free of family restraints, Leopardi was permitted by his father to visit Rome in 1822.
		Leopardi became increasingly respected in literary circles, although his personal life was unhappy.
	www.carcanet.co.uk /cgi-bin/scribe.cgi?author=leopardig (90 words)

	April '98 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Leopardi's education was rooted in Classicism and he resisted being called a Romantic poet.
		Nonetheless, Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) is the greatest contributor of Italian literature to European Romanticism, equaling that of Keats and Hölderlin in poetic passion and philosophical clarity.
		More than that, Leopardi is the poet that all Italians love--the poet who touches the heart of everyone during the school years and perhaps the only poet, together with Dante, remembered and re-read with affection virtually by everyone long after school is no longer attended.
	www.italcultny.org /events/1998/apr98.htm (3541 words)

	Leopardi Fragments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Written in response to the composer's discovery of the Monteverdi Vespers of 1610, the music responds vividly and even extravagantly to the texts, which are coloured by a chamelonic use of the instruments and set off by instrumental interludes.
		These settings of the nineteenth-century Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi, completed in 1962, were the first work for solo voices that Maxwell Davies had published, and also his first use of secular texts.
		The work left a profound impression upon him, and the Leopardi Fragments were one of three subsequent pieces (the others were the Sinfonia and the String Quartet in which he took structural elements of the Vespers as a compositional starting-point.
	www.maxopus.com /works/leopardi.htm (690 words)

	LEOPARDI, GIACOMO, COUN... - Online Information article about LEOPARDI, GIACOMO, COUN... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It must beremembered in fairness that the weakness of Leopardi's eyesight frequently deprived him for months together of the resource of study.
		The more painful details of his Neapolitan residence may be found by those who care to seek for them in the deplorable publication of Ranieri's peevish old age (Sette anni di sodalizio).
		Leopardi's biography is mainly in his letters (Epistolario, 1st ed., 1849, 5th ed., 1892), to which his later biographers (See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /LAP_LEO/LEOPARDI_GIACOMO_COUNT_1798_183.html (2625 words)

	Database Dutch Drama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The poet Giacomo Leopardi leads a life of seclusion in a dilapidated villa on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius for reasons of health.
		Fanny is disgusted by Giacomo’s body, and Giacomo yearns for Fanny’s touch, but is paralysed by fear of rejection.
		After his death Giacomo speaks to us from the great beyond: he longs to spew up all his distress in words, like a volcano spews up its lava.
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	MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Giacomo Leopardi
		Giacomo Leopardi is one of Italy’s greatest lyric poets.
		Predisposed toward depression and in poor health, he shut himself in his house and gave expression to his melancholy and pessimism through his work.
		Leopardi, Giacomo Talegardo Francesco Di Sales Saverio Pietro, Conte; Italian Literature
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	Amazon.ca: Leopardi: A Study in Solitude: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		iris origo really has something here, and her poetic biography of the great giacomo leopardi is a classic in itself.
		the darkness and despair of leopardi's verse is probably one reason for leopardi's obscurity and little known philosophical works, but the overwhelming sense of nothingness and meaninglessness that his work conveys is no reason to put him aside.
		leopardi was a quite genuine pessimist, unlike schopenhauer who betrayed through his lifestyle and even occasionally in his work itself a love and passion for life and art, and his gloom is not simply temperamental or tongue in cheek as it with arthur, but is very serious and profoundly felt.
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	Birth Bicentenary of Giacomo Leopardi
		The bicentenary of this great man will be marked by a world wide commemoration of his importance to the history of poetry.
		Born to a noble family in Recanati (Macerata), on 28 June 1789, Leopardi was extraordinarily precocious in his studies.
		His collected poems, Canti, represent, alongside the work of Shelley, Keats, Holderlin and Baudelaire, one of the highest expressions of nineteenth-century lyricism, the enduring merit of which is proved by the extent to which the have been translated and studied in all countries across the world.
	www.aasfn.sm /english/philatelic/leopardi_e.htm (242 words)

	Giacomo Leopardi translated by Antonio Marinelli English Italian English translations done by a professional translator ...
		Giacomo Leopardi translated by Antonio Marinelli English Italian English translations done by a professional translator based in Italy
		Giacomo Leopardi, probably the best-loved Italian poet, was born at Recanati, a short drive from where I live.
		Leopardi wrote his canto A Silvia in 1828, moved by the untimely death of the family coachman's daughter.
	www.english-italian.it /en/en_leo.htm (107 words)

	The Moral Essays; ; Giacomo Leopardi
		"Leopardi is one of the greatest of poets and prose writers, and like Kleist and Baudelaire, a truly original, devastating sensibility.
		This volume is the first of four which will encompass the great Canti (in bilingual text), selections from the poet's correspondence, a substantial portion of his enormous intellectual journal, the Zibaldone, and the focus of the present volume, the Operette morali.
		By means of numerous characters, and by means of a range of styles, Leopardi grapples with a theory of pleasure, the concepts of fame, the infinite, human happiness, the function of poetry, and other topics.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/cup/catalog/data/023105/0231057067.HTM (189 words)

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