by Giacomo Leopardi · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432038846
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«Cantos» is Giacomo Leopardi's collection of poems published by Planeta in 1983 in paperback (176 pages, in Spanish).
The poetry collection is organized in three sections: the first, neoclassical in style, draws on Greco-Roman classics, Dante and Petrarch; the second brings together poems of an intimate tone; the third adopts a reflective poetry, with a gaze fixed on nature, love and the human condition.
Edition with introduction, verse translation and notes by Diego Navarro. Collection «Clásicos Universales Planeta», no. 53. Work originally published as «Canti» in 1845.
For readers interested in Romantic poetry and nineteenth-century Italian literature.
Count Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi was an Italian poet, philosopher, essayist, and philologist. Considered the greatest Italian poet of the 19th century and one of the greatest authors of his time worldwide, as well as one of the principals of literary Romanticism, his constant reflection on existence and on the human condition—of sensuous and materialist inspiration—has also earned him a reputation as a deep philosopher. He is widely seen as one of the most radical and challenging thinkers of the 19th century, and one of the crowns of Italian Romanticism together with Alessandro Manzoni, even if he expressed different and sometimes opposing positions compared to the latter. Although he lived in a secluded town in the conservative Papal States, he came into contact with the main ideas of the Enlightenment, and, through his own literary evolution, created a remarkable and renowned poetic work, related to the Romantic era. The strongly lyrical quality of his poetry made him a central figure on the European and international literary and cultural landscape.
