Giacomo Leopardi

aesthetic Aleksandr Pushkin Alessandro Manzoni ancient Aspasia Barricelli beauty blank verse Bologna Canti canto Carlo Carlo Pepoli cosmic Count Monaldo crabs critic death desire destiny Dialogue dream earth emotion evil existence expression feeling Florence Giacomo Leopardi ginestra Gino Capponi Giordani happiness Hence hendecasyllables hope human condition idea idylls illusion images imagination imitation infinite inspiration intellectual Italian language Leopardian less literary living luna lyrical man's Manzoni meditation melancholy memory metaphysical mice Milan mind misery modern moon nature nature's never notion Operette morali Paolina Paralipomeni pardi passion Pensieri perhaps pessimism Petrarch philosophical Pietro Colletta pleasure Plotinus poem poet poet's poetic poetry prose Ranieri reader reality reason Recanati Risorgimento romantic romanticism Rome self-esteem sense serene seven-syllable lines song sorrow soul spirit stanzas Storia style suffering suicide sweet Tasso tedium things thinking thought Torquato Tasso truth unhappiness universal vanity words writing youth Zibaldone