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Informationen zum Autor Giacomo Leopardi Klappentext 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, will be published in Penguin Classics in 2012. JONATHAN GALASSI has also translated the poetry of Eugenio Montale and Primo Levi and has published several books of his own poems. Zusammenfassung Covers radical public poems of Leopardi 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.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Galassi, Leopardi, Giacomo Leopardi
• Assisted by: Jonathan Galassi (Translation), Galassi Jonathan (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.11.2010
• EAN: 9780141193878
• ISBN: 978-0-14-119387-8
• No. of pages: 528
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Little Black Classics; Penguin Classics; Little Black Classics
• Subjects: Education and learning > Readings/interpretations/reading notes > English; Fiction > Poetry, drama; Italy, Early 19th century c 1800 to c 1850, Classic and pre-20th century poetry