In these «Notebooks» Leopardi, the great nineteenth-century Italian poet, records his ideas about poetry and philosophy, makes notes for future poems, and reflects upon his reading. This translation is the first lengthy selection available to English readers, and it affords valuable insights into the thinking of this most important Italian poet since Petrarch.
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The Authors: Martha King teaches for the University of Maryland European Division in Italy. She received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Italian from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In addition to articles in professional journals and translations in numerous periodicals, she has published Cosima by Grazia Deledda and Family Chronicle by Vasco Pratolini, and edited New Italian Women, an anthology of Italian Women Writers. She has also taught at Gonzaga University, Florence, Italy, and the University of Texas, Austin.
A native of Rome, Daniela Bini received a Laurea in philosophy from the University of Rome and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Texas at Austin, where she teaches in the department of French and Italian. In addition to numerous articles on Italian literature and Philosophy in scholarly journals, she wrote A Fragrance from the Desert: Poetry and Philosophy in G. Leopardi, Carlo Michelstaedter and the Failure of Language; Italiano in diretta and Vivere all'Italiana with Antonella Pease, and she contributed an essay for a book on Luigi Pirandello.
Contents: The Zibaldone was Leopardi's workshop where all his poetical, philosophical and philological ideas were born and developed. It is the key to the innermost places of his mind.
