Leopardi

[ lee-uh-pahr-dee, ley-; Italian le-aw-pahr-dee ]

noun

1. Count Gia·co·mo [jah, -k, uh, -moh, jah, -kaw-maw], 1798–1837, Italian poet.

Leopardi

/ leoˈpardi /

noun

1. LeopardiGiacomo17981837MItalianWRITING: poetPHILOSOPHY: philosopher Count Giacomo (ˈdʒaːkomo). 1798–1837, Italian poet and philosopher, noted esp for his lyrics, collected in I Canti (1831)

Example Sentences

By the cast of his mind and the course of his inward experience he was drawn towards Leopardi.

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In later years Lenau's verses, like those of Leopardi in Italy, became ever more melancholy, owing partly to inherited tendencies.

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This may be seen by a reference to Leopardi, who is perhaps the greatest stylist of the century.

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And after dinner when he smoked, and she read Leopardi aloud to him, the frosted cake was quite forgotten.

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By the side of his cruel clearness the satire of Carlyle is bluster, the diatribes of Leopardi shrill and thin.

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