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Giacomo Leopardi: Canti: Selected Poems by Giacomo Leopardi 9781107418554
Booksplease Price: £27.60First published in 1937, this book presents a selection of poems from Leopardi's Canti in the original Italian. Created primarily for university students, the selection was made with the idea of... -
The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi (Esprios Classics) by Giacomo Leopardi 9781034516804
RRP: £19.96Booksplease Price: £15.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781034516804Author Giacomo LeopardiFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint BlurbPublisher... -
Canti by Giacomo Leopardi
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'So my mind sinks in this immensity:and foundering is sweet in such a sea'Revisited and reorganized over his lifetime, this extraordinary work was described by Leopardi as a 'reliquary' for his... -
Passions by Giacomo Leopardi
Booksplease Price: £50.72Selections from Leopardi's prose masterwork, Zibaldone, one of the great intellectual diaries in European literature, expertly translated by Tim ParksRevenge-Revenge is so sweet one often wishes to... -
Moral Fables by Giacomo Leopardy
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Alongside his monumental Zibaldone (Notebooks) and the poems collected in Canti, which make him one of Italy's greatest and best-loved poets, Giacomo Leopardi penned a number of fictional pieces,... -
Cantos by Giacomo Leopardi 9781937620202
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £24.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937620202Author Giacomo LeopardiFormat HardbackPage Count 538Imprint Charles & Wonder LLCPublisher... -
Leopardi: Selected Poems by Giacomo Leopardi
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.69These translations of the major poems of Giacomo Leopardi (1798--1837) render into modern English verse the work of a writer who is widely regarded as the greatest lyric poet in the Italian literary... -
Operette Morali: Essays and Dialogues by Giacomo Leopardi
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £26.35This series is conceived as a library of bilingual editions of works chosen for their importance to Italian literature and to the international tradition of art and thought Italy has nurtured. In... -
The War of the Mice and the Crabs by Giacomo Leopardi 9780807891643
Booksplease Price: £28.53Volume 164 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.Book InformationISBN 9780807891643Author Giacomo LeopardiFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint The University... -
Canti. Selected Poems by Giacomo Leopardi 9781291532715
RRP: £10.92Booksplease Price: £10.23Selected Poems by Giacomo Leopardi. (16 poems in the English Translation) Leopardi's Canti were written in 1835. This collection of lyric poetry is considered one of the most significant works of... -
Leopardi: Poems and Prose by Giacomo Leopardi 9780313257698
Booksplease Price: £51.71An anthology of the work of one of Italy's finest lyric poets.About the Authoropardi /f GiacomoBook InformationISBN 9780313257698Format HardbackPage Count 258Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher... -
The Letters of Giacomo Leopardi 1817-1837 by Prue Shaw
Booksplease Price: £39.99Giacomo Leopardi, Italy's great poet of the Romantic age, is the author of some of the most beautiful and best-loved poems in the Italian language and some of the most remarkable letters in European... -
Canti: Poems / A Bilingual Edition by Professor Giacomo Leopardi 9780374533052
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £20.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374533052Author Professor Giacomo LeopardiFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Farrar, Straus and... -
The Ethics of Giacomo Leopardi: A Philosophy for the Environmental Crisis Alice Gibson 9781350298637
Booksplease Price: £30.54Providing a comprehensive introduction to the work of pioneering poet-philosopher Giacomo Leopardi, Alice Gibson pushes his thought into new directions by investigating how his ethics and philosophy... -
Canti: The Most Important Book of Modern Italian Poetry by Giacomo Leopardi
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.05First published in 1831, and here presented in a dual-language edition with annotations and additional reading material, Leopardi's poetical masterpiece is an unsurpassed anatomy of man's unhappiness... -
The Ethics of Giacomo Leopardi: A Philosophy for the Environmental Crisis by Alice Gibson 9781350298644
Booksplease Price: £91.39Providing a comprehensive introduction to the work of pioneering poet-philosopher Giacomo Leopardi, Alice Gibson pushes his thought into new directions by investigating how his ethics and philosophy... -
The Poems of Leopardi: With Introduction and Notes and a Verse-Translation in the Metres of the Original by Giacomo Leopardi 9781107652125
Booksplease Price: £37.74First published in 1923, this book presents the complete text of Giacomo Leopardi's Canti in the original Italian with facing-page English translation, along with extensive critical notes. The text... -
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A System That Excludes All Systems: Giacomo Leopardi's "Zibaldone di pensieri" by Emanuela Cervato 9783034319942
RRP: £73.70Booksplease Price: £66.21For many decades Giacomo Leopardi's Zibaldone di pensieri has been seen as a collection of temporary thoughts and impressions whose final expression is to be found in the published poems (the Canti)... -
Ruins Past: Modernity in Italy, 1744-1836 by Sabrina Ferri 9780729411714
Booksplease Price: £97.93In an era haunted by its past, modern Europe sought to break with the old; the future and the new became the ideal. In Italy however, where the remains of the past dominated the landscape, ruins were... -
Giacomo Leopardi's Search For a Common Life Through Poetry: A Different Nobility, A Different Love by Frank Rosengarten 9781611475050
Booksplease Price: £96.65This book traces the life of Giacomo Leopardi by examining four different yet interrelated aspects: his social origins and class in relation to his evolving conception of nobility; the mixture of... -
Winthropos: Poems by George Kalogeris 9780807175675
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.13Winthropos, the title of George Kalogeris's new poetry collection, comes from the "Greek-ified" name his father, an immigrant from Greece, gave to the blue-collar New England town where the family... -
The Serpent Coiled in Naples by Marius Kociejowski
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In recent years Naples has become, for better or worse, the new 'destination' in Italy. While many of its more esoteric features are on display for all to see the stories behind them remain largely... -
Modern Tragedy and the End of Worlds: Lillo, Leopardi, Ibsen Leonardo F. Lisi 9780810149120
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £36.40Studying three tragic authors to explore the meanings - and consequences - of modernity The emergence of a distinctly modern form of tragedy is often associated with the introduction of... -
Classicism and Romanticism in Italian Literature: Leopardi's Discourse on Romantic Poetry by Fabio A. Camilletti
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89In 1816 a violent literary quarrel engulfed Bourbon Restoration Italy. On one side the Romantics wanted an opening up of Italian culture towards Europe, and on the other the Classicists favoured an... -
Midday In Italian Literature: Variations of an Archetypal Theme by Nicolas James Perella 9780691610917
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £50.43Although midday is commonly associated with indolence or the languishing of both nature and humanity in stifling heat, Nicolas Perella shows that this connection--however real--is secondary to an... -
The First Book: Twentieth-Century Poetic Careers in America Jesse Zuba 9780691271118
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40An illuminating look at the poetic debut in twentieth-century American literary culture"We have many poets of the First Book," the poet and critic Louis Simpson remarked in 1957, describing a sense... -
The First Book: Twentieth-Century Poetic Careers in America by Jesse Zuba 9780691164472
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.43"We have many poets of the First Book," the poet and critic Louis Simpson remarked in 1957, describing a sense that the debut poetry collection not only launched the contemporary poetic career but... -
Ten Steps: Critical Inquiries on Leopardi by Paola Cori 9783034319256
RRP: £54.25Booksplease Price: £48.73This book is a ten-step journey around the thought and poetry of the most sensitive Italian visionary of modernity, Giacomo Leopardi, whose contribution to Western thought has been acclaimed by... -
Beckett and Leopardi by Peter Boxall 9781009431002
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £16.52This Element revisits the relation between Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett to argue that the dialogue between them might offer new ways of thinking about the nature of both writers' pessimism... -
Beckett and Leopardi by Peter Boxall 9781009547918
Booksplease Price: £56.67This Element revisits the relation between Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett to argue that the dialogue between them might offer new ways of thinking about the nature of both writers' pessimism... -
Leopardi and Shelley: Discovery, Translation and Reception by Daniela Cerimonia
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) and Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) crossed paths during their lifetimes, and though they never met, the legacy of their work betrays a shared destiny. As prominent... -
Affirmation of Poetry by Judith Balso 9781937561178
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12Since the times of Plato and Aristotle, the relation of poetry to philosophy has been controversial. For certain scholars, poetry should in no way be confused with philosophy. For others, poetry is... -
Leopardi and Shelley: Discovery, Translation and Reception by Cerimonia Daniela
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) and Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) crossed paths during their lifetimes, and though they never met, the legacy of their work betrays a shared destiny. As prominent... -
The Problem of Free Will in David Foster Wallace by Paolo Pitari 9781032676692
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This book argues that David Foster Wallace failed to provide a response to the existential predicament of our time. Wallace wanted to confront despair through art, but he remained trapped, and his... -
Calm Calligraphy: Calm your mind with the art of calligraphy by Malleus Enrico Ragni
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.42Calm Calligraphy will teach you the ancient art of the Scriptorium - copying letters, words and phrases - which helps you focus your thoughts and relax your mind. Learn the beautiful letter forms... -
'Dear Friend, You Must Change Your Life': The Letters of Great Thinkers by Ada Bronowski 9781350089181
Booksplease Price: £85.65In Dear Friend, you must change your life, we see some of the most fascinating thinkers in history at their most private and profound, reaching out to a friend, sharing, testing, confirming... -
Rebuilding post-Revolutionary Italy: Leopardi and Vico's `New Science': 2018 by Martina Piperno 9780729412087
Booksplease Price: £97.93Co-Winner of the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies, 2018. The rediscovery of the thought of Giambattista Vico (1668-1774) - especially his New science... -
Italian Orientalism: Nationhood, Cosmopolitanism and the Cultural Politics of Identity by Fabrizio De Donno 9781788740180
RRP: £48.40Booksplease Price: £43.68The on-going debate on the legacies of modern European Orientalism has yet to fully consider its Italian context. Italian Orientalism is an interdisciplinary and transnational study both of the... -
Posthumanism in Italian Literature and Film: Boundaries and Identity by Enrica Maria Ferrara 9783030393694
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £99.82As humans re-negotiate their boundaries with the nonhuman world of animals,inanimate entities and technological artefacts, new identities are formed and anew epistemological and ethical approach to... -
Posthumanism in Italian Literature and Film: Boundaries and Identity by Enrica Ferrara 9783030393663
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £99.82As humans re-negotiate their boundaries with the nonhuman world of animals,inanimate entities and technological artefacts, new identities are formed and anew epistemological and ethical approach to...