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First published in 1831, and here presented in a dual-language edition with annotations and additional reading material, Leopardi’s poetical masterpiece is an unsurpassed anatomy of man’s unhappiness on earth. Trapped between an admiration for the classical past and a disappointment in the impoverished present, Leopardi rejected both the easy allure of Catholic faith and the unbridled optimism proposed by science and the Enlightenment. His unflinching pessimism and existential resolve, here brilliantly rendered in verse by prize-winning translator J.G. Nichols, make him one of the most fascinating and best-loved Italian poets.

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PARA el estudio del alma leopardiana tienen especial importancia sus Pensamientos, una verdadera enciclopedia de meditaciones más o menos filosóficas y literarias, de anotaciones filológicas, de historia, etc., que el poeta escribió para sí. En ella está el fruto de sus soliloquios, desde las observaciones íntimas y poéticas hasta los razonamientos puros y fríos del hombre objetivo. De sus páginas hemos extraído estas otras que publicamos bajo el título de Mi vida sin esperanza, y a las que hemos agregado la Carta dedicatoria a los amigos de Toscana, que figura en la edición florentina de los Cantos, y la Despedida de Tristán al amigo, extraída de las Pequeñas obras morales. A través de este volumen, seguimos la metamorfosis del poeta que desde las dulces y serenas ilusiones del primer amor cae en el terrible anonadamiento de su melancolía. Y seguimos también la evolución de su estilo y de su agudo espíritu analítico que será, sin duda, la cruz de su vida. No ya como literato puro, sin

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Heme aquí, pues, enamorado a los diecinueveaños [?] Pero como necesito dar algún consuelo a mi corazón [?] escribo estas líneas para explorar las profundidades del amor y poder recordar con la mayorexactitud cómo irrumpió en mi corazón esta pasión soberana. En diciembre de 1817 Leopardi conoció a Geltrude Cassi Lazzari, prima de su padre, por quienprofesó un amor secreto. Ese mismo día empezó la redacción de los dos textos recogidos en este volumen: Recuerdos del primer amor, publicado por primera vez en 1906, y la Elegía primera, incluida poco después en los Cantos con el título de El primer amor. Tanto el diario como el poema del joven Leopardi constituyen dos de los textos más emblemáticos del Romanticismo no sólo por su belleza sino tambiénpor su singularísima sensibilidad.

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Si Giacomo Leopardi (Recanati, 1798 - Nápoles, 1837) tiende hoy a ser visto como un contemporáneo más que como un clásico o un romántico se debe sin duda a la lucidez con que supo captar en su propio tiempo las corrientes subterráneas que dominan el nuestro. Situado al borde de dos mundos, con ninguno de los cuales llegó a identificarse, Leopardi supo evidenciar las contradicciones que lo laceraban adoptando una visión doble de las cosas: antigua y moderna, nostálgica e iconoclasta, pesimista y vital, siempre dramáticamente empeñada en la búsqueda de soluciones teórico-prácticas (para sí y para los demás), antes que complacientemente abandonada al escepticismo. Esta traducción de los Cantos de Leopardi ha obtenido el premio Internacional Città di Monselice 1998, en su modalidad Premio Internacional Diego Valeri que está destinado a la traducción de la poesía de Leopardi en lengua extranjera. Fruto de doce años de trabajo, esta edición pretende garantizar la comprensión exacta y profund

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Admired for the poetical heights of his Canti, the gentle wit of his prose dialogues and the soul-searching questionings of his Zibaldone (Notebooks), Leopardi was also an acute social commentator and a sharp dissector of the human mind. Thoughts - a collection of philosophical and critical observations put together for publication by Leopardi himself shortly before his death in 1837 - shows a more light-hearted side to Leopardi's personality, and offers both those who are familiar with and those who are new to his works a fresh insight into the thought processes and the worldview of Italy's last great polymath.

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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. In spite of this reputation, and in spite of a number of nineteenth-and twentieth-century translations, Leopardi's poems have never "come over" into English in such a way as to guarantee their author a recognition comparable to that of other great European Romantic poets. By catching something of Leopardi's cadences and tonality in a version that still reads as idiomatic modern English (with an occasional Irish or American accent), Leopardi: Selected Poems should win for the Italian poet the wider appreciative audience he deserves. His themes are mutability, landscape, love; his attitude, one of unflinching realism in the face of unavoidable human loss. But the manners of the poems are a unique amalgam of philosophical toughness and the lyrically bittersweet. In a way more pure and distilled than most others in the Western tradition, these poems are truly what Matthew Arnold asked all poetry to be, a "criticism of life." The translator's aim is to convey something of the profundity and something of the sheer poetic achievement of Leopardi's inestimable Canti.

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Alongside his monumental Zibaldone (Notebooks) and the poems collected in Canti, which make him one of Italy’s greatest and best-loved poets, Giacomo Leopardi penned a number of fictional pieces, mostly in the form of gently humorous dialogues, in which he dealt with philosophical ideas and many of the metaphysical questions that preoccupied his restless spirit. First published in 1827 and here presented in a new translation by J.G. Nichols along with Thoughts, Leopardi’s own selected pearls of wisdom and gems of social observation, Moral Fables will enchant both those who are familiar with and those who are new to the works of Italy’s last great polymath.

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'So my mind sinks in this immensity:and foundering is sweet in such a sea'Revisited and reorganized over his lifetime, this extraordinary work was described by Leopardi as a 'reliquary' for his ideas, feelings and deepest preoccupations. It encompasses drastic shifts in tone and material, and includes early personal elegies and idylls; radical public poems 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. Infused with classical allusion and nostalgia, yet disarmingly modern in their spare, meditative style and their sense of alienation and scepticism, the Canti influenced the following two centuries of Western lyric poetry, and inspired thinkers and writers from Schopenhauer and Nietzsche to Beckett and Lowell.Jonathan Galassi's direct new translation sensitively responds to the musicality of the Canti, while his introduction discusses the paradoxes of Leopardi's life and work.

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