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Tutto è nulla. Antologia dello "Zibaldone di pensieri"

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Tutto è nulla è un'antologia di passi selezionati dello Zibaldone di Pensieri, un'immensa produzione di riflessioni che spaziano dalla filologia alla letteratura, dalla filosofia all'estetica, dagli episodi biografici alla politica e alla storia, con una scrittura di andamento ora aforistico, breve e concentrato, ora saggistico, ampio e disteso. Un modo immediato per capire un grande poeta e per accostare un colosso a cui Leopardi, in più di quindici anni (1817-1832), non riuscì (o non volle) mai dare forma compiuta.

292 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1997

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Giacomo Leopardi

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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.

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