“The poet does not imitate nature; rather, nature speaks within him and through his mouth.”
About Giacomo Leopardi
29 June 1798–14 June 1837
Giacomo Leopardi was born in Recanati, in the Marches, then part of the Papal States, on 29 June 1798, and died in Naples on 14 June 1837, only weeks before his thirty-ninth birthday. His short life produced one of the most searching bodies of poetry and prose in modern European literature. He is often introduced as…