by Giacomo Leopardi · Ediciones 29 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788471754813
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«Los cantos» is the poetry collection by Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi, published by Ediciones 29 in paperback (160 pages, in Spanish).
The poems in «Los cantos», melancholic and reflective in tone, revolve around nature, love, death, and the human condition. Leopardi, a 19th-century Italian figure, combines classical tradition with a Romantic sensibility, and his poetry constitutes a reference point in Italian literature.
The original Italian title is «Canti». Volume in the Poetas Mayores collection, published in Barcelona in 2000.
For readers of poetry and classical literature, especially those wishing to approach a key 19th-century Italian author.
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.
