Articles liés à The Poems ('Canti') of Leopardi
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GlACOMO LEOPARD lwas born on June 29, 1798, at Recanati, a small country town in the March of A ncona. He was of noble descent on both father and mothers side, but the family was in somewhat straitened circumstances. His father, Count Leopardi, lived retired from the world, a pedant of narrow views, but of considerable erudition ;a bigot who held ultramontane and mediaeval notions as to the prerogatives and position of the clergy and the Church, whose almost servilely devoted son he was ;a father who utterly failed, if indeed he ever tried, to understand his gifted son, or win his sympathy and affection. He destined Giacomo for the Church, and could never forgive him for his refusal to devote his life to her service. The young Leopardi was sickly as a boy even, and his over-studious habits from his earliest years utterly undermined a constitution which would never have been robust. He spent his boyhoods days unchecked in his fathers wellstocked library, omnivorously devouring and assimilating all that came to his hands, till at the age of sixteen already he had become a self-taught prodigy of learning. He had read through all the ancient classics, and mastered several European modern languages and Hebrew
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