Leopardi, poet and philosopher, explores in humorous but savage dialogue the power of fashion and its strange irrationality. He also imagines conversations between Hercules and Atlas, Nature and an Icelander, and the Earth and the Moon, as well as producing a simple essay praising the humble bird. GREAT IDEAS. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

Great Ideas V Dialogue Between Fashion and Death (Penguin Great Ideas)

Politics & Social Sciences

LEOPARDI, GIACOMO

Philosophy

Penguin Uk

'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, meditative style and their sense of alienation and scepticism, the Canti influenced the following two centuries of Western lyric poetry, and inspired thinkers and writers from Schopenhauer and Nietzsche to Beckett and Lowell.
Jonathan Galassi's direct new translation sensitively responds to the musicality of the Canti, while his introduction discusses the paradoxes of Leopardi's life and work.

Canti (Penguin Classics)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Penguin Classics

Giacomo Leopardi was the greatest Italian poet of the nineteenth century and was recognized by readers from Nietzsche to Beckett as one of the towering literary figures in Italian history. To many, he is the finest Italian poet after Dante.
Leopardi was also a prodigious scholar of classical literature and philosophy, and a voracious reader in numerous ancient and modern languages. For most of his writing career, he kept an immense notebook, known as the Zibaldone, or "hodgepodge," as Harold Bloom has called it, in which he put down his original, wide-ranging, radically modern responses to his reading. His comments about religion, philosophy, language, history, anthropology, astronomy, literature, poetry, and love are unprecedented in their brilliance and suggestiveness, and the Zibaldone, which was only published at the turn of the twentieth century, has been recognized as one of the foundational books of modern culture. Its 4,500-plus pages have never been fully translated into English until now, when a team led by of Michael Caesar and Franco D'Intino of the Leopardi Centre in Birmingham have spent years producing a lively, accurate version. This essential book will change our understanding of nineteenth-century culture.
Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837), Italy's 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, was published in Penguin Classics in 2013.

Zibaldone: The Notebooks of Leopardi (Penguin Hardback Classics)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

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.

Pensieri: A Bilingual Edition (Gb768)

Di Piero, W.S.

Oxford University Press

Newly awakened interest in Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837), arguably the greatest Italian poet since the Renaissance, has resulted in this project to translate a major portion of his works. 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. Originally planned as a set of dialogues in the manner of Lucian, the Operette is a compilation of brief, interrelated works on questions of moral philosphy. 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. In the poet's own opinion, the Operette represented his major philosophical speculation and ranked just below his Canti.

The Moral Essays (Works of Giacomo Leopardi, Vol. 1)

Columbia University Press

Léopardi: Traduit de l'Italien; Poésies Completes (Classic Reprint) (French Edition)

Excerpt from L opardi: Traduit de l'Italien; Po sies Completes Tu marchais en chantant dans ta route isol e. L'heure derni re vint, tant de fois appel e, Tu la vis arriver sans crainte et sans remord. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Poetry

Forgotten Books

Appressamento della Morte: Cantica Inedita (Classic Reprint) (Italian Edition)

Excerpt from Appressamento della Morte: Cantica Inedita Era la Cantica della Morte, 0 per dir meglio la si credeva tale; un lavoro dei giovani anni, lavoro curioso, importante, perocche i parenti e gli amici ne serbarono memoria ricordando il dolore e l'idea religiosa che l'aveva ispirato, il pensiero che vi campeggia dell'immortalit dell'anima e di un premio dopo la vita. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Parenting & Relationships

Selections from Leopardi’s prose masterwork, Zibaldone, one of the great intellectual diaries in European literature, expertly translated by Tim Parks Revenge—Revenge is so sweet one often wishes to be insulted so as to be able to take revenge, and I don’t mean just by an old enemy, but anyone, or even (especially when in a really bad mood) by a friend.—from Passions The extraordinary quality of Giacomo Leopardi’s writing and the innovative nature of his thought were never fully recognized in his lifetime. Zibaldone, his 4,500-page intellectual diary—a vast collection of thoughts on philosophy, civilization, literary criticism, linguistics, humankind and its vanities, and other varied topics—remained unpublished until more than a half-century after his death. But shortly before he died, Leopardi began to organize a small, thematic collection of his writings in an attempt to give structure and system to his philosophical musings. Now freshly translated into English by master translator, novelist, and critic Tim Parks, Leopardi’s Passions presents 164 entries reflecting the full breadth of human passion. The volume offers a fascinating introduction to Leopardi’s arguments and insights, as well as a glimpse of the concerns of thinkers to come, among them Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, Wittgenstein, Gadda, and Beckett.

Passions (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)

Essays & Correspondence

Yale University Press

An anthology of the work of one of Italy's finest lyric poets.

Leopardi: Poems and Prose

Praeger

Excerpt from Léopardi: Traduit de l'Italien; Poésies CompletesTu marchais en chantant dans ta route isolée. L'heure dernière vint, tant de fois appelée, Tu la vis arriver sans crainte et sans remord.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Great Ideas V Dialogue Between Fashion and Death (Penguin Great Ideas)

Canti (Penguin Classics)

Zibaldone: The Notebooks of Leopardi (Penguin Hardback Classics)

Pensieri: A Bilingual Edition (Gb768)

The Moral Essays (Works of Giacomo Leopardi, Vol. 1)

Léopardi: Traduit de l'Italien; Poésies Completes (Classic Reprint) (French Edition)

Appressamento della Morte: Cantica Inedita (Classic Reprint) (Italian Edition)

Passions (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)

Leopardi: Poems and Prose

Léopardi: Traduit de l'Italien; Poésies Completes (Classic Reprint) (French Edition)