Transcript Giacomo Leopardi - The College of New Jersey

Giacomo Leopardi
The Romantic Age
Gens Leoparda
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When does Leopardi write the “Story of his Soul”?
How does he describe his native town
The function of memories (5)
The Leopardis. C ount Monaldo and Countess Adelaide
Leopardi’s thoughts on his father (11)
Leopardi on childhood (11)
Ungaretti’s words on Leopardi’s memory (12)
Main themes of Leopardi’s poetry and works
Leopardi’s theory of “double objects” (13-15)
Leopardi’s theory of translation (14)
The Zibaldone
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Title of the collection and content (71)
From the considerations of the Romantic poetic ideals to
Leopardi’s (72-4)
What is poetry for Leopardi and how can it be destroyed
by the Romantics (74)
Leopardi on “illusions” (75-79)
Leopardi on Tasso (76)
Leopardi on death and friends (76-7)
On language and gestures (77)
On reading (79)
About Lord Byron (79)
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On works representing despair and the “inevitable
unhappiness of life” (80)
On fame and pleasures (80)
On the common currency of times (81)
Infinite and indefinite, memories, vagueness (82-94-95)
Life as loss (82)
Historical pessimism as reflected in the fable of Psyche
(82-3)
The reasons of the richness of the Italian language (84-5)
Rapidity and concision (or the use of metaphors) (85)
Words and ideas as one inseparable unity (88)
The modernization of Italian (89-90)
Life (91)
Dante and Tasso (92)