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Giacomo Leopardi

Giacomo Leopardi. The Romantic Age. Gens Leoparda. When does Leopardi write the “Story of his Soul”? How does he describe his native town The function of memories (5) The Leopardis. C ount Monaldo and Countess Adelaide Leopardi’s thoughts on his father (11) Leopardi on childhood (11)

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Giacomo Leopardi

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  1. Giacomo Leopardi The Romantic Age

  2. Gens Leoparda • When does Leopardi write the “Story of his Soul”? • How does he describe his native town • The function of memories (5) • The Leopardis. C ount Monaldo and Countess Adelaide • Leopardi’s thoughts on his father (11) • Leopardi on childhood (11) • Ungaretti’s words on Leopardi’s memory (12) • Main themes of Leopardi’s poetry and works • Leopardi’s theory of “double objects” (13-15) • Leopardi’s theory of translation (14)

  3. The Zibaldone • Title of the collection and content (71) • From the considerations of the Romantic poetic ideals to Leopardi’s (72-4) • What is poetry for Leopardi and how can it be destroyed by the Romantics (74) • Leopardi on “illusions” (75-79) • Leopardi on Tasso (76) • Leopardi on death and friends (76-7) • On language and gestures (77) • On reading (79) • About Lord Byron (79)

  4. On works representing despair and the “inevitable unhappiness of life” (80) • On fame and pleasures (80) • On the common currency of times (81) • Infinite and indefinite, memories, vagueness (82-94-95) • Life as loss (82) • Historical pessimism as reflected in the fable of Psyche (82-3) • The reasons of the richness of the Italian language (84-5) • Rapidity and concision (or the use of metaphors) (85) • Words and ideas as one inseparable unity (88) • The modernization of Italian (89-90) • Life (91) • Dante and Tasso (92)

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