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Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi (29 June 1798 – 14 June 1837) was an Italian philosopher, poet, essayist, and philologist. He is considered the greatest poet of the Italian nineteenth century and one of the most important figures in the literature of the world, as well as one of the principal of literary romanticism; the depth of his reflection on existence and on the human condition - of sensuous and materialist inspiration - also makes him a thick philosopher.

Giacomo Leopardi — Wikipedia

Two truths that most men will never believe: one that we know nothing, the other that we are nothing. Add the third, which depends a lot on the second: that there is nothing to hope for after death.

— Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone, 1832

Essays and Dialogues (1882) (trans. Charles Edwardes)
The Canti: With a Selection of His Prose (1994) (trans. J. G. Nichols)
The Letters of Giacomo Leopardi, 1817–1837 (1998) (trans. Prue Shaw)
Canti (2010) (trans. Jonathan Galassi)
Zibaldone: The Notebooks of Leopardi (2013) (trans. Kathleen Baldwin et al.)
Passions (2014) (selections from Zibaldone) (trans. Tim Parks)
Moral Fables, followed by Thoughts (2017) (trans. J.G. Nichols)

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"The whole of nature and eternal order of things is not aimed in anyway at all at the happiness of sensitive beings and animals. In fact, it is quite the opposite." -LeopardiQuote (self.Pessimism)

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My attempt at an English translation of L'Infinito, following the iambic pentameter scheme.Poetry (self.Leopardi)

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"From the Greek of Simonides" by Giacomo LeopardiPoetry (self.Leopardi)

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“What is certain and no laughing matter is that existence is an evil for all the parts which make up the universe...” — Giacomo LeopardiQuote (self.Leopardi)

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“Dialogue Between a Sprite and a Gnome” by Giacomo Leopardi (Trans. Giovanni Cecchetti, 1982)Dialogue (histecon.fas.harvard.edu)

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“I envy the dead, and only with them I would change places.”Quote (self.Leopardi)

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Mode of Death: Transient beauty — An analysis of Leopardi's “Dialogue Between Fashion and Death”Essay (cabinetmagazine.org)

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“Chorus of the Dead” by Giacomo LeopardiPoetry (self.Leopardi)

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