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Title: Giacomo%20Leopardi


1
Giacomo Leopardi
  • The Romantic Age

2
Gens Leoparda
  • When does Leopardi write the Story of his Soul?
  • How does he describe his native town
  • The function of memories (5)
  • The Leopardis. C ount Monaldo and Countess
    Adelaide
  • Leopardis thoughts on his father (11)
  • Leopardi on childhood (11)
  • Ungarettis words on Leopardis memory (12)
  • Main themes of Leopardis poetry and works
  • Leopardis theory of double objects (13-15)
  • Leopardis theory of translation (14)

3
The Zibaldone
  • Title of the collection and content (71)
  • From the considerations of the Romantic poetic
    ideals to Leopardis (72-4)
  • What is poetry for Leopardi and how can it be
    destroyed by the Romantics (74)
  • Leopardi on illusions (75-79)
  • Leopardi on Tasso (76)
  • Leopardi on death and friends (76-7)
  • On language and gestures (77)
  • On reading (79)
  • About Lord Byron (79)

4
  • On works representing despair and the inevitable
    unhappiness of life (80)
  • On fame and pleasures (80)
  • On the common currency of times (81)
  • Infinite and indefinite, memories, vagueness
    (82-94-95)
  • Life as loss (82)
  • Historical pessimism as reflected in the fable of
    Psyche (82-3)
  • The reasons of the richness of the Italian
    language (84-5)
  • Rapidity and concision (or the use of metaphors)
    (85)
  • Words and ideas as one inseparable unity (88)
  • The modernization of Italian (89-90)
  • Life (91)
  • Dante and Tasso (92)
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