Zibaldone PDF Giacomo Leopardi

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Think of Plato among the ancients, or Foscolo among the moderns. That makes it difficult to know if the voices whose timbre the reader seems to perceive most intensely were ones he had read at first hand—and when and to what extent—or not. Montaigne is one such, and so, above all, are Vico and Rousseau, who are never quoted directly, except in the final years. Of course, it helps to examine the library, for it has remained essentially as it was. His correspondence and the many lists preserved in Naples (the so-called reading lists) provide other precious data. But abundance can be as misleading as absence; Leopardi was more playful and mischievous than is generally thought, and he keeps his most important cards covered; he likes to play as much as to converse, to conceal as much as to display, and often both at the same time. It’s surprising to find passages of Voltaire or Plato, of crucial importance in his thinking, cited only for a linguistic detail (

Book Name: Zibaldone pdf

Author Name Giacomo Leopardi

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Added Year 2013

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