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Italian poetry is a category of Italian literature. Italian poetry has its origins in the thirteenth century and has heavily influenced the poetic traditions of many European languages, including that of English . Features. Italian prosody is accentual and syllabic, much like English.
Dante Alighieri (Italian: [ˈdante aliˈɡjɛːri]; c. May 1265 – September 14, 1321), most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to as Dante (English: / ˈ d ɑː n t eɪ, ˈ d æ n t eɪ, ˈ d æ n t i /, US: / ˈ d ɑː n t i /), was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher.
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Leopardi was born into a local noble family in Recanati, in the Marche, at the time ruled by the papacy. His father, Count Monaldo Leopardi, who was fond of literature and a committed reactionary, remained an advocate of traditional ideals. His mother, Marchioness Adelaide Antici Mattei, was a cold and authoritarian woman, obsessed with rebuilding ...
First academic writings
These were rough years for Leopardi, as he started developing his concept of Nature. At first, he saw this as "benevolent" to mankind, helping to distract people from their sufferings. Later, by 1819, his idea of Nature became dominated by a destructive mechanism. Up to 1815, Leopardi was essentially an erudite philologist. Only thereafter he began to dedicate himself to literature and the search for beauty, as he affirms in a famous letter to Giordani of 1817. Pompeo in Egitto ("Pompey in Eg...
The first canti
All'Italia and Sopra il monumento di Dante marked the beginning of the series of major works. In the two canti, the concept of "excessive" or "over-civilization" which is deleterious for life and beauty first makes its appearance. In the poem All'Italia, Leopardi laments the fallen at the Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC, fought between the Greeks under Leonidas and the Persians under Xerxes), and evokes the greatness of the past. In the second canto, he turns to Dante and asks him for pity for...
The Idilli
The six Idilli ("Idylls"), namely Il sogno ("The dream"), L'Infinito ("The Infinite"), La sera del dì di festa ("The evening of the feast day"), Alla Luna ("To the Moon"), La vita solitaria ("The solitary life") and Lo spavento notturno ("Night-time terror"), followed hard upon the first canti. Il sogno is still Petrarchesque, while the others which followed are the fruit of a more mature and independent art. Leopardi establishes with nature a sort of accord which attenuates the pain and disc...
The Zibaldone
The Zibaldone di pensieri (see also Commonplace book#Zibaldone) is a collection of personal impressions, aphorisms, philosophical observations, philological analyses, literary criticism and various types of notes which was published posthumously in seven volumes in 1898 with the original title of Pensieri di varia filosofia e di bella letteratura (Miscellaneous Thoughts on Philosophy and Literature). The publication took place thanks to a special governmental commission presided over by Giosu...
Samuel Beckett refers to Leopardi's work several times in his critical study Proust and quotes a passage from "A Se Stesso", "non che la speme il desiderio", in the English version of his 1951 nove...In "The Part about the Crimes", the fourth part of Roberto Bolaño's novel 2666, Canto notturno di un pastore errante dell'Asia is extensively quoted by a television psychic named Florita Almada who...The title of Carlo Forlivesi's album, Silenziosa Luna, is a quotation from the same poem.The 2014 Italian film Leopardiis a biography of his life.Leopardi, Giacomo (1923). The Poems of Leopardi. Translated by G.L. Bickersteth. New York: New American Library.Leopardi, Giacomo (1966). Iris Origo; John Heath-Stubbs (eds.). Giacomo Leopardi – Selected Prose and Poetry. New York: New American Library.Leopardi, Giacomo (1976). The War of the Mice and the Crabs. Translated by Ernesto G. Caserta. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780-807891643.Leopardi, Giacomo (1983). Operette Morali: Essays and Dialogues. Translated by Giovanni Cecchetti. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-04928-4.Butler, Francis, ed. (1909). The Poems of Leopardi. Poems.English.1909. Manchester: Manchester University Press.Carsaniga, Giovanni (1977). Giacomo Leopardi: The Unheeded Voice. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.Croce, Benedetto (1924). "Leopardi." In: European Literature in the Nineteenth Century.London: Chapman & Hall, pp. 111–130.Fletcher, Constance (1885). "Leopardi," The Nineteenth Century,Vol. 18, pp. 978–992.Works by Giacomo Leopardi at Project GutenbergWorks by or about Giacomo Leopardi at Internet ArchiveWorks by Giacomo Leopardi at LibriVox(public domain audiobooks)Giacomo Leopardi at Cambridge Digital Library23 de abr. de 2024 · Dante (born c. May 21–June 20, 1265, Florence [Italy]—died September 13/14, 1321, Ravenna) was an Italian poet, prose writer, literary theorist, moral philosopher, and political thinker. He is best known for the monumental epic poem La commedia, later named La divina commedia ( The Divine Comedy ). Dante’s Divine Comedy, a ...
- Dante is considered the greatest Italian poet, best known for The Divine Comedy, an epic poem that is one of the world’s most important works of li...
- Dante Aligheiri was born in 1265 to a family of lesser nobility in Florence. He began writing poems while young, and, when he was nine, he met Beat...
- Facing execution in Florence for refusing to pay a fine—resulting from his political activities—in 1302, Dante wandered before settling in Ravenna,...
Italian poet and scholar Dante Alighieri is best known for his masterpiece La Commedia (known in English as The Divine Comedy), which is universally considered one of world literature’s greatest poems. Divided into three sections—Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso—The Divine Comedy presents an…
12 de oct. de 2020 · Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) was an Italian poet and politician most famous for his Divine Comedy (c. 1319) where he descends through Hell, climbs Purgatory, and arrives at the illumination of Paradise. Dante meets many historical characters along the way, including his guide, the Roman poet Virgil (70-19 BCE).
Dante Alighieri ( Italian: [duˈrante deʎʎ aliˈɡjɛːri] ), known simply as Dante ( Italian: [ˈdante], UK: / ˈdænti /, US: / ˈdɑːnteɪ /; c. 1265 – September 14, 1321), was a major Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages / Early Renaissance.
