Operette Morali: Essays and Dialogues (Biblioteca Italiana)

Rating:
Summary: An Essential Masterpiece of Western Literature
Review: Leopardi is the greatest Italian poet since Dante and Petrarch.

He should be just as famous, however, for this prose work, which is a collection of short essays and philosophical dialogues.

Cecchetti is an eminently qualified translator, and this California Press paperback gives you a marvelous opportunity to revel in what is indisputably a neglected (in English, at least)
Major Work.

If you like Beckett, or especially the philosophy of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, or even Kafka and Borges, you will also find reading Leopardi a superb, rewarding experience!