Nuove Poesie.

in Bologna, Presso Nicola Zanichelli 1877, cm.10x16,5, pp.(8),110,(18), una tav.in bn.in antip., rilegatura in mezza percallina rossa con punte, titoli in oro al dorso. Prima edizione. Raro. Il volume è rilegato insieme alla XIV edizione di: Satana e Polemiche sataniche, Zanichelli 1882.

Texte établi, annoté et présenté par Bernard Champigneulles. Paris, Le Club Français du Livre 1960, cm.13,5x21, pp.XX,305, un ritratto a un col.in antip., legatura ed.in tutta tela, vignetta a 2 col. applic.al piatto ant., titoli in oro al dorso, segnalibro in stoffa, sovraccop. trasparente con piccole mende. Esempl. molto ben tenuto. Collection Mémoires,12.

Traduzione di Camillo Pellizzi. Milano, Longanesi 1967, cm.11,5x18, pp.288, brossura con copertina figurata a colori. Collana I Libri Pocket.

Translated by Eamon Grennan. Princeton, Princeton University Press 1997, cm.15,5x23,5, pp.93, brossura con copertina figurata a colori. These 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 tradition. In spite of this reputation, and in spite of a number of nineteenth-and twentieth-century translations, Leopardi's poems have never "come over" into English in such a way as to guarantee their author a recognition comparable to that of other great European Romantic poets. By catching something of Leopardi's cadences and tonality in a version that still reads as idiomatic modern English (with an occasional Irish or American accent), Leopardi: Selected Poems should win for the Italian poet the wider appreciative audience he deserves. His themes are mutability, landscape, love; his attitude, one of unflinching realism in the face of unavoidable human loss. But the manners of the poems are a unique amalgam of philosophical toughness and the lyrically bittersweet. In a way more pure and distilled than most others in the Western tradition, these poems are truly what Matthew Arnold asked all poetry to be, a "criticism of life" The translator's aim is to convey something of the profundity and something of the sheer poetic achievement of Leopardi's inestimable Canti.