by Giacomo Leopardi · Luigi Reverdito Editore · tapa dura · ISBN 9788840393490
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«Opere» is an anthology of Giacomo Leopardi's poetic and philosophical work, published by Luigi Reverdito Editore in hardcover (525 pages, in Italian).
It brings together the Canti, with poems such as «A Silvia», «Il sabato del villaggio» and «L'infinito»; the Operette morali, philosophical dialogues against optimism and modern civilization; and the Paralipomeni della Batracomiomachia, a satirical poem in ottava rima that portrays the politics of its time through fabulous characters. It also includes various poems.
The edition, published in 1995, belongs to the collection «I Grandi Classici».
A work for scholars of Italian literature and for readers interested in the poetry and Romantic thought of the nineteenth century.
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.
