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Giacomo Leopardi

1798 - 1837

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Count Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi (US: ; Italian: [ˈdʒaːkomo leoˈpardi]; 29 June 1798 – 14 June 1837) was an Italian philosopher, poet, essayist, and philologist. He is considered the greatest Italian poet of the nineteenth century and one of the most important figures in world literature, as well as one of the principals of literary romanticism; his constant reflection on existence and on the human condition—of sensuous and materialist inspiration—has also earned him a reputation as a deep philosopher. He is widely seen as one of the most radical and challenging thinkers of the 19th century but routinely compared by Italian critics to his older contemporary Alessandro Manzoni despite expressing "diametrically opposite positions." Although he lived in a secluded town in the conservative Papal States, he came into contact with the main ideas of the Enlightenment, and, through his own literary evolution, created a remarkable and renowned poetic work, related to the Romantic era. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giacomo Leopardi has received more than 817,320 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 65 in 2019). Giacomo Leopardi is the 441st most popular writer (up from 517th in 2019), the 566th most popular biography from Italy (up from 640th in 2019) and the 36th most popular Italian Writer.

Giacomo Leopardi was a poet and philosopher who wrote in the late 1700s and early 1800s. He is most famous for his work "Il pensiero dominante" and "Il segreto".

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Notable Works

Pensieri
1909
Zibaldone
1921
Poems
1889
Operette morali
Italian literature
1835
I canti
1900
Canti
Poetry
A comprehensive translation of the Canti, together with extracts from Leopardi's prose. In this book, a selection of passages from his prose, keyed to the poems, suggests their context and the ideas which underlie them. The volume concludes with a biography, woven out of Leopardi's own words.
1900
Pensieri
Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
1909
Canti
Translations into English, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Collected works (single author, multi-form)
Canti is a collection of poems by Giacomo Leopardi, generally considered to be one of the most significant works of Italian poetry.
1900
Zibaldone
Facsimiles, Italian Manuscripts, Manuscripts
1921
Poems
Translations into English, Translations, Italian poetry
1889
Operette morali
Ethics, Italian literature, history and criticism
1835
I canti
1900

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Giacomo Leopardi ranks 441 out of 7,302. Before him are Abdulrazak Gurnah, Kurt Vonnegut, Louis Aragon, André Maurois, Meera, and Lysias. After him are Auguste Escoffier, Propertius, Rudaki, Fausto Cercignani, Comte de Lautréamont, and Ammianus Marcellinus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1798, Giacomo Leopardi ranks 6. Before him are Auguste Comte, Eugène Delacroix, Adam Mickiewicz, Pedro I of Brazil, and Alexandra Feodorovna. After him are Jules Michelet, Charles Albert of Sardinia, Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Berry, Josiah Warren, František Palacký, and Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia. Among people deceased in 1837, Giacomo Leopardi ranks 7. Before him are William IV of the United Kingdom, Alexander Pushkin, Hortense de Beauharnais, Charles Fourier, Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden, and John Constable. After him are Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Georg Büchner, François Gérard, Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands, John Field, and Philippe Buonarroti.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giacomo Leopardi ranks 566 out of 5,161. Before him are Gentile Bellini (1429), Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598), Denis (210), Philip of Swabia (1177), Benedetto Croce (1866), and Gregorio Allegri (1582). After him are Propertius (-50), Claudio Ranieri (1951), Fausto Cercignani (1941), Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720), Marcus Furius Camillus (-446), and Ettore Bugatti (1881).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Giacomo Leopardi ranks 36. Before him are Grazia Deledda (1871), Theocritus (-315), Cornelius Nepos (-100), Elena Ferrante (1943), Pietro Aretino (1492), and Edmondo De Amicis (1846). After him are Propertius (-50), Fausto Cercignani (1941), Salvatore Quasimodo (1901), Tibullus (-50), Livius Andronicus (-280), and Alessandro Manzoni (1785).

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