Canti

''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 ideas, feelings and deepest preoccupations. It encompasses drastic shifts in tone and material, and includes early personal elegies and idylls; radical public poems on history and politics; philosophica...