Giacomo Leopardi

À cœur ouvert

Lettres sur le bonheur

Heart-to-Heart

Happiness Letters
May 20, 2020
Epistolary
64 pages
100 × 165 mm
7,95 €
9788831312103
978-8-8313-1210-3
Translated from Italian by Louise Bourdonnat

“Les Plis les livres prêts-à-expédier” collection

																Giacomo Leopardi, À cœur ouvert
																Giacomo Leopardi, À cœur ouvert

“But men must not be discouraged or despair of themselves.”
— Giacomo Leopardi

In his correspondence of a thousand shades, Giacomo Leopardi is generous and ardent, tender with his brothers and nephews, obstinate and indomitable in the face of adversity. From his solitude populated by friends, he writes about the attention and comfort that men owe each other. These letters reveal an enthusiastic and passionate poet, eager for glory and freedom. Far from being a “dark lover of Death”, he is a man with an infinite and inextinguishable desire for life.

The author

A philosopher with an encyclopaedic culture, Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) is also the great poet of the human condition and of memory. A child prodigy educated according to strict religious principles, this erudite man, along with Dante, entered the pantheon of Italian writers. In accordance with the iconoclastic will of the “Folds” this selection of letters shows another face of Leopardi. The man too often remembered as a pessimist appears here as a deep connoisseur of the human soul, cultivating an ambitious idea of happiness.

The edition

Letters selected and presented by Marco Federici Solari.

May 20, 2020
Epistolary
64 pages
100 × 165 mm
7,95 €
9788831312103
978-8-8313-1210-3
Translated from Italian by Louise Bourdonnat

“Les Plis les livres prêts-à-expédier” collection