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The CantiWith a Selection of His ProseGiacomo LeopardiTranslated by J.G. Nichols
Categories: 19th Century, Italian
Imprint: Fyfield Books Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (192 pages) (Pub. Apr 2003) 9781857546941 £12.95 £11.65
I sit by night, and see the distant stars
High in the clear blue sky Flame down upon this melancholy waste, And see them mirrored by The distant sea, till all this universe Sparkles throughout its limpid emptiness. (from 'The Broom or The Flower of the Desert')
Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) was the greatest Italian poet after Petrarch and one of the great prose writers of the nineteenth century. Caught between devotion to the classical past and a sense of the impoverished present, Leopardi rejected both the Catholicism of his childhood and Enlightenment optimism. In his world, all that we love and value is illusory, and therefore to be loved the more. His existential resolve makes him the most compelling of Italian poets.
Here is the essential introduction to the poems. J.G. Nicholls provides a translation of the complete Canti, explanatory notes, and a selection of Leopardi's prose, keyed to related poems. Further background is provided by Nicholls's introduction and a brief biography woven from Leopardi's own words.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION CANTI I To Italy II On the Proposed Monument to Dante in Florence III To Angelo Mai on the Occasion of his Discovery of some Books of Cicero's De Re Publica IV For the Wedding of his Sister Paolina V To a Victor in the Games VI Brutus VII To Spring or Of the Ancient Fables VIII Hymm to the Patriarchs or Of the Beginnings of the Human Race IX Sappho's Last Song X First Love XI The Solitary Thrush XII The Infinite XIII The Evening of the Holiday XIV To the Moon XV The Dream XVI The Solitary Life XVII Consalvo XVIII To his Lady XIX To Count Carlo Pepoli XX The Revival XXI To Silvia XXII Remembrances XXIII NIght Song of a Wandering Shepherd of Asia XXIV The Calm after the Storm XXV the Village Saturday XXVI The Dominant Thought XXVII Love and Death XXVIII To Himself XXIX Aspasia XXX Upon a Bas-relief on an Ancient Tomb showing a Daed Girl in the Act of Departing and Taking Leave of her Family XXXI On the Likeness of a Beautiful Lady Carved upon her Tomb XXXII Palinode to the Marchese Gino Capponi XXXIII The Setting of the Moon XXXIV The Broom or The Flower of the Desert XXXV Imitation XXXVI Jeu d'Esprit XXXVII Fragment (Hear me, Melissus...) XXXVIII Fragment ( Still walking up and down...) XXXIX Fragment (The ray of daylight...) XL Fragments: Fron the Greek of Semonides XLI Fragments: From the Same GIACOMO LEOPARDI 1798-1837 |
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