Giacomo Leopardi Poems. Beloved beauty who inspires. He is considered the greatest Italian poet of the nineteenth century and one of the most important figures in the literature of the world as well as one of the principals of literary romanticism.
His three poems All Italia Sopra il Monumento di Dante A Angelo Mai gave him a national reputation. The Evening Of The Holiday XIII. The Evening of the Holiday.
To the Moon XIV.
Beloved beauty who inspires. Translated by Jonathan Galassi. Is this our human life. They touch the chords to which he always respondedpatriotism poetry learning a national idealism bearing aloft an enormous weight of erudition and thought.