by Giacomo Leopardi · RBA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788480570558
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«Cantos» is the poetry collection by Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi, published by RBA in hardback (176 pages, in Spanish).
Cantos brings together the poetry of Giacomo Leopardi, a nineteenth-century Italian poet. His verses explore metaphysical solitude, nature, love, and the human condition from a melancholic perspective that anticipates modern sensibility.
Edition from the History of Literature series, with translation and notes by Diego Navarro. The Italian original, Canti, was published in 1845.
For readers of classical poetry, Romanticism, and Italian literature seeking an annotated edition.
Count Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi was an Italian poet, philosopher, essayist, and philologist. Considered the greatest Italian poet of the 19th century and one of the greatest authors of his time worldwide, 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, and one of the crowns of Italian Romanticism together with Alessandro Manzoni, even if he expressed different and sometimes opposing positions compared to the latter. 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. The strongly lyrical quality of his poetry made him a central figure on the European and international literary and cultural landscape.
