Giacomo Leopardi’s Search For A Common Life Through Poetry by Rosengarten Frank

Author:Rosengarten, Frank
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

NOTES

1. Harvey, ed., 406–7.

2. Roberta Smith, “Playing the Renegade with Eroticism or Rage,” New York Times Weekend Arts, November 12, 2010, C25.

3. Luti, 36.

4. On October 27, 1833, in a letter that did not reach its destination until March 8, 1834, Leopardi’s trusted friend Vincenzo Gioberti wrote to him from Paris, where he had gone into exile after suffering four months in prison in Turin. Even if he had not known of any other Italians who were suffering political persecution at the time, Gioberti’s testimony would have been sufficient to make him aware of the fact that Italy’s Risorgimento would not happen without the sacrifices of many of his countrymen. Epistolario (Moroncini), Volumes 6/7, 261–62.

5. Macchiaroli ed. (b), 296–98. See also Ferraris, 16. The Duchy of Tuscany was ruled by members of the Hapsburg family.

6. All English translations of “Palinode” cited in this chapter are those of Galassi, 261–79.

7. The phrases mean arrogant boldness, sublime souls, changeable beauty, noble stock, and wicked mother.

8. Ernesto Caserta, ed. and trans., The War of the Mice and the Crabs, Chapel Hill, North Carolina University Press, 1976.

9. I nuovi credenti, in Damiani (a), 58–63.

10. Coppa (a), 359.

11. Giacomo Leopardi, Appendix, Canti (Ginzburg).

12. See Macchiaroli (b), 301–6, for a good summary of the plot line.

13. My translation, taken from Giacomo Leopardi, Paralipomeni della Batracomiachia di Giacomo Leopardi, a reprint of the edition published by Libreria Europea di Baudry, Paris, 1842, Copyright BiblioBazaar, LLC., 34.

14. This point is made in Macchiaroli (b), 303.

15. Paralipomeni, Canto 5, stanza 46. My translation. On this episode, see Ferraris, 137–39.

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