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Giacomo Leopardi

Born

in Recanati, Italy

June 29, 1798

Died

June 14, 1837

Genre

Poetry, Nonfiction, Philosophy

Influences

Voltaire, Ugo Foscolo, Homer, Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach, Epicurus, Ep ...more

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Italian scholar, poet, essayist and philosopher, one of the great writers of the 19th century.
Leopardi's love problems inspired some of his saddest lyrics. Despite having lived in a small town, Leopardi was in touch with the main ideas of the Enlightenment movement. His literary evolution turned him into one of the well known Romantic poets.
In his late years, when he lived in an ambiguous relationship with his friend Antonio Ranieri on the slopes of Vesuvius, Leopardi meditated upon the possibility of the total destruction of humankind.
Leopardi was a contemporary of the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, with whom he shared a similarly pessimistic view of life. The latter praised Leopardi's philosophical thoughts on The World as Will ...more

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Giacomo Leopardi’s books

Average rating: 4.22 · 8,163 ratings · 565 reviews · 626 distinct works • Similar authors

	Canti 4.39 avg rating — 2,883 ratings — published 1845 — 478 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Operette Morali: Essays and Dialogues (Biblioteca Italiana) (Volume 3) by Giacomo Leopardi, Giovanni Cecchetti 4.35 avg rating — 1,553 ratings — published 1832 — 171 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thoughts by Giacomo Leopardi, Maarja Kangro (Translator ), J.G. Nichols (Translator), Edoardo Albinati (Forward) 3.87 avg rating — 674 ratings — published 1830 — 70 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zibaldone by Giacomo Leopardi, Michael Caesar (Editor), Franco D'Intino (Editor) 4.40 avg rating — 434 ratings — published 1898 — 55 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dialogue Between Fashion and Death by Giacomo Leopardi, Giovanni Cecchetti (Translator) 3.83 avg rating — 271 ratings — published 1824 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memorie del primo amore by Giacomo Leopardi, Cesare Galimberti (Editor) 3.77 avg rating — 273 ratings — published 1817 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Canti e le Operette morali 4.41 avg rating — 198 ratings — published 1987 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Leopardi: Selected Poems by Giacomo Leopardi, Eamon Grennan (Translator) 4.09 avg rating — 194 ratings — published 1995 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Con pieno spargimento di cuore. Lettere sulla felicità 4.48 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Discorso sopra lo stato presente dei costumi degl'italiani by Giacomo Leopardi, Maurizio Moncagatta (Editor), Salvatore Veca (Contributor) 3.93 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 1824 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Giacomo Leopardi (?)

“The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.”
― Giacomo Leopardi

tags: knowledge

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“Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.”
― Giacomo Leopardi

113 likes

“Children find everything in nothing, men find nothing in everything.”
― Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone di pensieri

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