Dulce y clara es la noche

by Giacomo Leopardi

Siempre caro me fue este yermo cerro y este seto, que priva a la mirada de tanto espacio del último horizonte. Mas, sentado y contemplando, interminables espacios más allá de aquellos, y sobrehumanos silencios, y una quietud hondísima en mi mente imagino. Tanta, que casi el corazón se estremece. Y como oigo el viento susurrar en la espesura, voy comparando ese infinito silencio con esta voz. Y me acuerdo de lo eterno, y de las estaciones muertas, y de la presente y viva, y de su música. Así que, entre esta inmensidad, mi pensamiento anego, y naufragar me es dulce en este mar. 'El infinito'

128 pages, Paperback

Published October 2, 2019

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.