Zibaldone

Leopardi, Giacomo; Caesar, Michael (Ed.); D'Intino, Franco (Ed.); Baldwin, Kathleen (Transl.)

ISBN 10: 0374296820 / ISBN 13: 9780374296827

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2013

First edition, hardcover, has a light skew to the binding with a shallow gap starting between the text block and case at the head of the spine, moderate bumps to the spine ends and corners with mild creasing to the page corners, and some slight smudging to the edges of the text block. Otherwise, this is a solid, bright Very Good copy in an unclipped, Near Very Good dust jacket, which has rubbing with light smudging to the covers and spine, bumps with some creasing to the spine ends and corners, and slight edge wear to the covers. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar, and additional images are available upon request. Seller Inventory # 206682

Synopsis:

A groundbreaking translation of the epic work of one of the great minds of the nineteenth century

Giacomo Leopardi was the greatest Italian poet of the nineteenth century and was recognized by readers from Nietzsche to Beckett as one of the towering literary figures in Italian history. To many, he is the finest Italian poet after Dante. (Jonathan Galassi's translation of Leopardi's Canti was published by FSG in 2010.)
He was also a prodigious scholar of classical literature and philosophy, and a voracious reader in numerous ancient and modern languages. For most of his writing career, he kept an immense notebook, known as the Zibaldone, or "hodge-podge," as Harold Bloom has called it, in which Leopardi put down his original, wide-ranging, radically modern responses to his reading. His comments about religion, philosophy, language, history, anthropology, astronomy, literature, poetry, and love are unprecedented in their brilliance and suggestiveness, and the Zibaldone, which was only published at the turn of the twentieth century, has been recognized as one of the foundational books of modern culture. Its 4,500-plus pages have never been fully translated into English until now, when a team under the auspices of Michael Caesar and Franco D'Intino of the Leopardi Centre in Birmingham, England, have spent years producing a lively, accurate version. This essential book will change our understanding of nineteenth-century culture. This is an extraordinary, epochal publication.

About the Author: Giacomo Leopardi (1798–1837) was born in Recanati, Italy. He was a poet, essayist, philosopher, and philologist.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Zibaldone
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
Publication Date: 2013
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Good
Edition: First Edition.