Tag Leopardi

Sit down. Look up.

Georges Barthouil on Leopardi’s attitude to travel: Leopardi was not a great traveller. In fact he imagined his foreign travels… Surely he had long wanted to escape his ancestral prison at Recanati in the Marches: However, escaping from a prison…

So much he could understand that you can’t

Luciano Mangiafico, a retired American diplomat and the author of two books and many more articles, wrote this in his 2013 piece on Giacomo Leopardi: Franco D’Intino, a professor of modern Italian literature at La Sapienza University in Rome, and…