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Giacomo Leopardi was born in Recanati, a small town in the Italian Marches, in 1798. Renowned in his youth as a classical scholar, he suffered from poor health all his life and never experienced happiness in love. He visited Rome, Bologna, and Florence, but never fully broke away from his family, until in his last years he finally moved with a friend to Naples, where he died in 1837. He is the author of Zibaldone.

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Contents

TITLE PAGE, 
COPYRIGHT NOTICE, 
DEDICATION, 
INTRODUCTION: POET OF PROBLEMS, 
Canti, 
I. All'Italia / To Italy, 
II. Sopra il monumento di Dante che si preparava in Firenze / On the Monument to Dante Being Erected in Florence, 
III. Ad Angelo Mai / To Angelo Mai, 
IV. Nelle nozze della sorella Paolina / On the Marriage of His Sister Paolina, 
V. A un vincitore nel pallone / To a Champion at Pallone, 
VI. Bruto minore / Brutus, 
VII. Alla primavera / To Spring, 
VIII. Inno ai patriarchi / Hymn to the Patriarchs, 
IX. Ultimo canto di Saffo / Sappho's Last Song, 
X. Il primo amore / First Love, 
XI. Il passero solitario / The Solitary Thrush, 
XII. L'infinito / Infinity, 
XIII. La sera del dì di festa / The Evening of the Holiday, 
XIV. Alla luna / To the Moon, 
XV. Il sogno / The Dream, 
XVI. La vita solitaria / The Solitary Life, 
XVII. Consalvo / Consalvo, 
XVIII. Alla sua donna / To His Lady, 
XIX. Al Conte Carlo Pepoli / To Count Carlo Pepoli, 
XX. Il risorgimento / The Reawakening, 
XXI. A Silvia / To Silvia, 
XXII. Le ricordanze / The Recollections, 
XXIII. Canto notturno di un pastore errante dell'Asia / Night Song of a Wandering Shepherd in Asia, 
XXIV. La quiete dopo la tempesta / The Calm After the Storm, 
XXV. Il sabato del villaggio / Saturday in the Village, 
XXVI. Il pensiero dominante / The Dominant Idea, 
XXVII. Amore e Morte / Love and Death, 
XXVIII. A se stesso / To Himself, 
XXIX. Aspasia / Aspasia, 
XXX. Sopra un basso rilievo antico sepolcrale / On an Ancient Funeral Relief, 
XXXI. Sopra il ritratto di una bella donna / On the Portrait of a Beautiful Woman, 
XXXII. Palinodia al Marchese Gino Capponi / Recantation for Marchese Gino Capponi, 
XXXIII. Il tramonto della luna / The Setting of the Moon, 
XXXIV. La ginestra / Broom, 
XXXV. Imitazione / Imitation, 
XXXVI. Scherzo / Scherzo, 
FRAMMENTI, 
[FRAGMENTS], 
XXXVII. "Odi, Melisso ..." / "Listen, Melisso ...", 
XXXVIII. "Io qui vagando al limitare intorno," / "Lurking here around the threshold, I", 
XXXIX. "Spento il diurno raggio in occidente," / "The light of day had died out in the west,", 
XL. Dal greco di Simonide / From the Greek of Simonides, 
XLI. Dello stesso / By the Same Author, 
Other Texts, 
Le rimembranze / Memories, 
Il canto della fanciulla / The Girl's Song, 
Coro di morti nello studio di Federico Ruysch / Chorus of the Dead in the Study of Frederick Ruysch, 
Ad Arimane / To Ahriman, 
CHRONOLOGY, 
THE STRUCTURE OF THE CANTI, 
NOTES, 
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY, 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, 
INDEX OF TITLES AND FIRST LINES, 
ACCLAIM FOR CANTI, 
ABOUT THE AUTHOR / TRANSLATOR, 
COPYRIGHT,