Frases de Giacomo Leopardi
Giacomo Leopardi
Fecha de nacimiento: 29. Junio 1798
Fecha de muerte: 14. Junio 1837
Otros nombres: Giacomo Graf Leopardi
El conde Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi fue un poeta, filósofo, filólogo y erudito italiano del Romanticismo. Wikipedia
Frases Giacomo Leopardi
„Children find everything in nothing, men find nothing in everything.“
— Giacomo Leopardi, libro Zibaldone
Fuente: Zibaldone di pensieri
„Pleasure is always in the past or in the future, never in the present.“
— Giacomo Leopardi, libro Zibaldone
Il piacere è sempre o passato o futuro, non mai presente.
29th September 1823, Festival of Saint Michael the Archangel.
Zibaldone (1898)
„To that creature, being born,
Its birthday is a day to mourn.“
— Giacomo Leopardi, libro Canto notturno di un pastore errante dell'Asia
Stato che sia, dentro covile o cuna,
È funesto a chi nasce il dì natale.
Canto notturno di un pastore errante dell'Asia (Night song of a nomadic shepherd in Asia) (1829-1830). Translation by Eamon Grennan, Leopardi: Selected Poems [Princeton University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-691-01644-5], p. 62
Poetry
„Two truths that most men will never believe: one that we know nothing, the other that we are nothing. Add the third, which depends a lot on the second: that there is nothing to hope for after death.“
— Giacomo Leopardi, libro Zibaldone
1832. Passions. Translation by Tim Parks. [Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 9780300186338], p. 8
Zibaldone (1898)
„My philosophy isn’t only not conducive to misanthropy, as it might appear to a superficial reader, and as many have accused me. It essentially rules out misanthropy, it tends toward healing, to dissolving discontent and hatred. Not knee-jerk hatred but the deep-dyed hatred that unreflective people who would deny being misanthropes so cordially bear (habitually or on select occasions) toward their own kind in response to hurts they receive—as we all do, justly or not—from others. My philosophy holds nature guilty of everything, it acquits mankind completely and directs our hate, or at least our lamentations, to its matrix, to the true origin of the afflictions living creatures suffer, etc.“
— Giacomo Leopardi, libro Zibaldone
2nd January, 1829. Translation by W. S. Di Piero.
Zibaldone (1898)
„No one can truthfully boast or say in anger: I cannot be unhappier than I am.“
— Giacomo Leopardi, libro Zibaldone
13-14th August 1821.
Zibaldone (1898)
