Canti - Giacomo Leopardi

'So my mind sinks in this immensity:and foundering is sweet in such a sea'. Revisited and reorganised over his lifetime, this extraordinary work was described by Leopardi as a 'reliquary' for his ideas, feelings and deepest preoccupations. It encompasses drastic shifts in tone and material, and includes early personal elegies and idylls; radical public poems on history and politics; philosophical satires; his great, dark, despairing odes such as To Silvia; and later masterworks such as The Setting of the Moon, written not long before Leopardi's death.

Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528