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The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi

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  1. Preface by O.B. Frothingham

    6:11

  2. Dedication

    2:45

  3. To Italy, 1818

    7:13

  4. On Dante's Monument, 1818

    10:41

  5. To Angelo Mai, on his Discovery of the Lost Books of Cicero, 'De Republica'

    8:37

  6. To his Sister Paolina, on her Approaching Marriage

    5:43

  7. To a Victor in the Game of Pallone

    3:57

  8. The Younger Brutus

    8:45

  9. To the Spring, or of the Fables of the Ancients

    6:06

  10. Hymn to the Patriarchs, or of the Beginnings of the Human Race

    7:50

  11. The Last Song of Sappho

    5:26

  12. First Love

    5:25

  13. The Lonely Sparrow

    3:12

  14. The Infinite

    1:10

  15. The Evening of the Holiday

    2:46

  16. To the Moon

    1:08

  17. The Dream

    6:57

  18. The Lonely Life

    7:11

  19. Consalvo

    8:56

  20. To the Beloved

    3:00

  21. To Count Carlo Pepoli

    8:24

  22. The Resurrection

    6:20

  23. To Sylvia

    4:02

  24. Recollections

    9:21

  25. Night-Song of a Wandering Shepherd in Asia

    6:27

  26. Calm after Storm

    3:21

  27. The Village Saturday-Night

    2:47

  28. The Ruling Thought

    7:04

  29. Love and Death

    6:04

  30. To Himself

    1:29

  31. Aspasia

    5:54

  32. On an Old Sepulchral Bas-Relief, Where is Seen a Young Maiden, Dead, in the Act of Departing, Taking Leave of her Family

    5:05

  33. On the Portrait of a Beautiful Woman, Carved on her Monument

    3:33

  34. Palinodia - to the Marquis Gino Capponi

    14:23

  35. The Setting of the Moon

    3:47

  36. The Ginestra, or the Flower of the Wilderness

    13:40

  37. Imitation

    0:51

  38. Scherzo

    1:40

  39. Fragments

    6:45

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Walls, arches, columns and towers give the opening poem its view of Italy, where visible traces of former greatness prompt an appeal in the country's defense. Giacomo Leopardi addresses the country directly, linking sorrow at its condition with the sound of its children fighting abroad. Frederick Townsend's English translations bring this public voice together with poems whose titles turn toward love, memory, solitude and the natural world.

The collection also examines the restless search for happiness. In the middle passage, the daily efforts of a pilot, workshop laborers, a soldier and a merchant become examples in an argument about work and desire. Wealth, games, feasts and travel offer further occasions for considering boredom and dissatisfaction. Alongside these reflections, the speaker describes poetry's power to portray beauty and imagination's ability to provide images beyond ordinary experience. Readers interested in philosophical verse can follow the changing connections between patriotic feeling, private longing and the love of song.

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