Opere

by Giacomo Leopardi, Mario Fubini (Editor)

Le opere di Leopardi sono proposte da UTET in un inedito formato digitale, corredato di un accurato e autorevole compendio esegetico. La produzione letteraria del maggior poeta dell'Ottocento italiano, figura tra le più importanti della letteratura mondiale e del romanticismo letterario, sono ora fruibili nelle modalità di lettura e analisi offerte dall'innovativa editoria digitale, con un accurato compendi critico navigabile ipertestualmente.

1149 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 28, 1935

About the author

Italian scholar, poet, essayist and philosopher, one of the great writers of the 19th century.
Leopardi's love problems inspired some of his saddest lyrics. Despite having lived in a small town, Leopardi was in touch with the main ideas of the Enlightenment movement. His literary evolution turned him into one of the well known Romantic poets.
In his late years, when he lived in an ambiguous relationship with his friend Antonio Ranieri on the slopes of Vesuvius, Leopardi meditated upon the possibility of the total destruction of humankind.
Leopardi was a contemporary of the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, with whom he shared a similarly pessimistic view of life. The latter praised Leopardi's philosophical thoughts on The World as Will and Representation.