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Giacomo Leopardi left an indelible mark on Italian poetry, in which category he is considered second only to Dante, and while Leopardi’s influence on European letters does not match that of a ...
Analysis. Giacomo Leopardi’s prominence as a poet stems from the lyrical greatness of the Canti, but as Essays and Dialogues demonstrates, there was in him a talent for biting sarcasm and ...
Count Giacomo Talegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi was born in Recanati, in the province of the Marches, of a wealthy and noble family with a long tradition of service to the ...
Leopardi, Giacomo (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism) Introduction. Principal Works. Criticism. The Poetry of Leopardi in Victorian England 1837-1878. The Idea of Truth in Manzoni and Leopardi ...
Complete summary of Giacomo Leopardi's The War of the Mice and the Crabs. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The War of the Mice and the Crabs.
Biography. James Thomson was born to Scottish parents whose chief characteristics became some of his own. His father, an officer of the merchant marine, was known for his geniality and love of ...
Biography. Cesare Pavese was born on September 9, 1908, in his family home in the village of Santo Stefano Belbo. He grew up there and in the industrial city of Turin, where his father, Eugenio ...
Eamon Grennan is recognized by many fellow poets for his uncanny constructions of bicultural, international poetic works. In 2003, he received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for his Still Life ...
Eugenio Montale was born in Genoa, Italy, on October 12, 1896. His father owned an import firm and would take the family—Montale’s mother and his three elder brothers and one elder sister—to ...
For one who made such a cult of privacy, Tommaso Landolfi proved remarkably confessional, revealing much of a complicated inner life, the details of which are far richer than the external events ...
