Fabio A Camilletti: 1 book
Leopardi's Nymphs
Grace, Melancholy, and the Uncanny
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"How can one make poetry in a disenchanted age? For Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) this was the modern subject's most insolvable deadlock, after the Enlightenment's pitiless unveiling of truth. Still, in the poems written in 1828-29 between Pisa and the Marches, Leopardi manages to turn disillusion...
