Leopardi: a Biography

Abate Accademia della Crusca admiration Alessandro d'Ancona Ancona Antici Aspasia beauty believe Biblioteca bitter Bologna Brighenti brother Carlo Byron Carducci Carlo Pepoli CHAPTER childhood church consolation Conte Monaldo Contessa Adelaide delight desire despair Dialogue dreams emotion Epistolario eyes Fanny father fear feel Florence friendship Giacomo Leopardi Giordani happiness heart honour hope human Ibid idylls illusions imagination Italian Italy lady later literary live Macerata Manzoni Marchese melancholy mind months Moroncini morte Naples nature never night Operette Morali pain Palazzo Leopardi Paolina Papal parenti ed amici passion Pesaro Pietro Giordani Pisa pleasure Plotinus poems poet poet's published quoted Ranieri return to Recanati Roman Rome Sanctis Scritti scudi seems sister soon spirit Stendhal suffering tells things thought tion told Torre del Greco town translated unhappy Vieusseux whole wish woman writing written young youth Zibaldone