... authors on directing their energies - with less minuteness of ... Giacomo Leopardi , whose life by Ranieri ( who was his friend , and through ... in author of a History of Charles V. in Italy , seems to be awakening , and ...
This 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 idealism and misogynism in his attitude ...