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Informationen zum Autor Giacomo Leopardi (1798--1837) was a prolific writer! translator! and thinker in Italy during the years of European upheaval that followed the French Revolution. He became a fluent translator of Latin! Greek! and Hebrew! earned high regard as the "first modern Italian classic poet!" and is also esteemed for his diverse prose work. Tim Parks is the author of fifteen novels! including Europa! which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; four acclaimed memoirs of life in contemporary Italy; and other nonfiction works. He runs a postgraduate degree program in translation at IULM University in Milan and has translated works by Moravia! Calvino! Calasso! Machiavelli! and numerous others. Klappentext Translated by Tim Parks, this is a small collection representing Leopardi's writings on a wide range of philosophical arguments and insights. Zusammenfassung Selections from Leopardi's prose masterwork! Zibaldone! one of the great intellectual diaries in European literature! expertly translated by Tim Parks

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• Authors: Giacomo Leopardi, Giacomo/ Parks Leopardi
• Assisted by: Tim Parks (Translation)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.11.2014
• EAN: 9780300186338
• ISBN: 978-0-300-18633-8
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters; The Margellos World Republic of Letters; Margellos World Republic of Le; World Republic of Letters (Yale)
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, PHILOSOPHY / Essays, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Literary essays, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought