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How do I get into Leopardi? What are his essential works?

>> No.16870584

>>16870577
read the Zibaldone, it's long but it's worth it

>> No.16870633

>skips neck day

>> No.16870645

>>16870577
There's not a unique way to get into Leopardi, you should pick what interests you the most and move forward from there.

Canti --> his life-long collection of poems
Zibaldone --> his life-long journal of thoughts, reflections and studies
Small Moral Works --> his philosophical opus in the form of dialogues between fictional or classical characters

These are the works Leopardi is famous for. But he also wrote astronomical treatises, patriotic orations, philological commentaries, textbooks, a literary anthology for school, and a bunch of beautiful letters to his family and to the most important intellectuals of that time.

>> No.16871802

No more discussion?

>> No.16871947

>>16871802
This is an Anglo board and a fairly comprehensive response has already been given

>> No.16871950

>>16870577
By his asshole, of course.

>> No.16871969

I've read a large chunk of Zidaldone and didn't find it as interesting as I'd hoped. Will try to finish the whole thing though.

>> No.16871978

What's the best English translation of his Zibaldone?

>> No.16872728

>>16870577
>>16870645
>forgetting Paralipomeni della Batracomiomachia, the totally unofficial sequel of the Greek satirical poem (but it's ok, the original wasn't even truly by Homer)

>> No.16872756

>>16871978
>not learning Italian
never gonna make it

>> No.16873059

>>16871978
I think there's only one and it's fairly recent with that

>> No.16873303

For me, it's Cougari