The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi

Leopardi

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Leopardi · 35 chapters

Quotes from this book

• “She once was great, but, oh, behold her now”?

• Why hast thou fallen thus, oh, why? Where is the ancient force?

Chapters

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• PREFACE.Sample
• Dedication.
• TO ITALY. (1818.)
• ON DANTE’S MONUMENT, 1818.(THEN UNFINISHED.)
• TO ANGELO MAI,ON HIS DISCOVERY OF THE LOST BOOKS OF CICERO, “DE REPUBLICA.”
• TO HIS SISTER PAOLINA,ON HER APPROACHING MARRIAGE.
• TO A VICTOR IN THE GAME OF PALLONE.
• THE YOUNGER BRUTUS.
• TO THE SPRING.OR OF THE FABLES OF THE ANCIENTS.
• HYMN TO THE PATRIARCHS.OR OF THE BEGINNINGS OF THE HUMAN RACE.
• THE LAST SONG OF SAPPHO.
• FIRST LOVE.
• THE LONELY SPARROW.
• THE INFINITE.
• THE EVENING OF THE HOLIDAY.
• TO THE MOON.
• THE DREAM.
• THE LONELY LIFE.
• CONSALVO.
• TO THE BELOVED.
• TO COUNT CARLO PEPOLI.
• THE RESURRECTION.
• RECOLLECTIONS.
• NIGHT SONG OF A WANDERING SHEPHERD IN ASIA.
• CALM AFTER STORM.
• THE RULING THOUGHT.
• LOVE AND DEATH.
• TO HIMSELF.
• ASPASIA.
• PARTING, TAKING LEAVE OF HER FAMILY.
• PALINODIA.TO THE MARQUIS GINO CAPPONI.
• THE SETTING OF THE MOON.
• THE GINESTRA,OR THE FLOWER OF THE WILDERNESS.
• SCHERZO.
• I.
• II.