The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi, translated by Frederick Townsend

About this eBook

Author

Leopardi, Giacomo, 1798-1837

Title

The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi

Language

English

LoC Class

PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese

Subject

Italian poetry -- Translations into English

Category

Text

eBook-No.

19315

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19315

Release Date

September 19, 2006

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE POEMS OF GIACOMO LEOPARDI
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.Dedication.
5. 5.TO ITALY. (1818.)
6. 6.ON DANTE’S MONUMENT, 1818. (THEN UNFINISHED.)
7. 7.TO ANGELO MAI, ON HIS DISCOVERY OF THE LOST BOOKS OF CICERO, “DE REPUBLICA.”
8. 8.TO HIS SISTER PAOLINA, ON HER APPROACHING MARRIAGE.
9. 9.TO A VICTOR IN THE GAME OF PALLONE.
10. 10.THE YOUNGER BRUTUS.
11. 11.TO THE SPRING. OR OF THE FABLES OF THE ANCIENTS.
12. 12.HYMN TO THE PATRIARCHS. OR OF THE BEGINNINGS OF THE HUMAN RACE.
13. 13.THE LAST SONG OF SAPPHO.
14. 14.FIRST LOVE.
15. 15.THE LONELY SPARROW.
16. 16.THE INFINITE.
17. 17.THE EVENING OF THE HOLIDAY.
18. 18.TO THE MOON.
19. 19.THE DREAM.
20. 20.THE LONELY LIFE.
21. 21.CONSALVO.
22. 22.TO THE BELOVED.
23. 23.TO COUNT CARLO PEPOLI.
24. 24.THE RESURRECTION.
25. 25.TO SYLVIA.
26. 26.RECOLLECTIONS.
27. 27.NIGHT SONG OF A WANDERING SHEPHERD IN ASIA.
28. 28.CALM AFTER STORM.
29. 29.THE VILLAGE SATURDAY NIGHT.
30. 30.THE RULING THOUGHT.
31. 31.LOVE AND DEATH.
32. 32.TO HIMSELF.
33. 33.ASPASIA.
34. 34.ON AN OLD SEPULCHRAL BAS-RELIEF. WHERE IS SEEN A YOUNG MAIDEN, DEAD, IN THE ACT OF DEPARTING, TAKING LEAVE OF HER FAMILY.
35. 35.ON THE PORTRAIT OF A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN, CARVED ON HER MONUMENT.
36. 36.PALINODIA. TO THE MARQUIS GINO CAPPONI.
37. 37.THE SETTING OF THE MOON.
38. 38.THE GINESTRA, OR THE FLOWER OF THE WILDERNESS.
39. 39.IMITATION.
40. 40.SCHERZO.
41. 41.FRAGMENTS. — I. — II.

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