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A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 Giacomo Leopardi is Italys greatest modern poet the first European writer to portray and examine the self in a way that feels familiar to us today. Giacomo Leopardis most popular book is Canti. Giacomo Leopardi has 263 books on Goodreads with 18512 ratings.
His bleak outlook on human life.
Essays have been written on his ideas. These translations of the major poems of Giacomo Leopardi 1798-1837 render into modern English verse the work of a writer who is widely regarded as the greatest lyric poet in the Italian literary tradition. He quantifies the infinite and disenchants the illusive tendencies of human nature while eulogizing them by means of an elegy. Townsend has the honor of introducing him in the most captivating way to his countrymen.