A Study in Solitude
The Life of Leopardi - Poet, Romantic and Radical
An extremely moving account of the lonely life of the unloved and tragic genius - described as the greatest modern Italian poet'Love me, by God; I need love, love, love, fire, enthusiasm, life. The world does not seem made for me'Giacomo Leopardi, considered the greatest Italian poet since Dante, was one of the most radical thinkers of the nineteenth century. He also regarded himself one of the most miserable and unfortunate people to have lived.Born to strict parents in a provincial town in 1798, he had a lonely childhood, and he spent his time largely in his father's library. He suffered from a debilitating illness, and his short life was f…
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- ISBN: 978-1-78227-280-9
- EAN: 9781782272809
- Produktnummer: 22977773
- Verlag: Pushkin Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 416 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'819 KB
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Iris Origo (1902-1988) was a British-born biographer and writer. She lived in Italy and devoted much of her life to the improvement of the Tuscan estate at La Foce, which she purchased with her husband in the 1920s. During WWII, she sheltered refugee children and assisted many escaped Allied prisoners of war and partisans in defiance of Italy's fascist regime and Nazi occupation forces. Pushkin Press also publishes her war diaries, War in Val d'Orcia, her memoir, Images and Shadows, as well as another of her biographies, The Last Attachment.
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