Giacomo Leopardi

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Giacomo Leopardi was a 19th-century Italian poet, philosopher, and essayist renowned for his profoundly pessimistic worldview and his major contribution to modern Italian literature.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Italian writer
essayist
human
philologist
philosopher
poet
translator
causeOfDeath cholera
citizenship Italy
countryOfBirth Italy
countryOfDeath Italy
dateOfBirth 1798-06-29
dateOfDeath 1837-06-14
describedAs major figure of modern Italian literature
educatedAt family library of the Leopardi palace in Recanati
familyName Giacomo Leopardi self-linksurface differs
surface form: Leopardi
father Giacomo Leopardi self-linksurface differs
surface form: Monaldo Leopardi
fieldOfWork literary criticism
philology
philosophy
poetry
fullName Giacomo Leopardi self-linksurface differs
surface form: Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi
gender male
givenName Giacomo
influenced European pessimistic philosophy
Italian literature
influencedBy Ancient Greek
surface form: Classical Greek literature

Latin literature
languageOfWorkOrName Italian
mother Adelaide Antici Leopardi
movement Romanticism
nativeLanguage Italian
notableIdea cosmic pessimism
philosophical pessimism
notableWork Silvia
surface form: A Silvia

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L'infinito
Le ricordanze
Operette morali
Zibaldone di pensieri
occupation essayist
philologist
philosopher
poet
translator
placeOfBirth Recanati
placeOfDeath Naples
sibling Carlo Leopardi
Paolina Leopardi
worldview profound pessimism

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Giacomo Leopardi familyName Giacomo Leopardi self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Leopardi
Giacomo Leopardi father Giacomo Leopardi self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Monaldo Leopardi
Giacomo Leopardi fullName Giacomo Leopardi self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi
Giacomo hasNotableBearer Giacomo Leopardi
Gabriele D'Annunzio influencedBy Giacomo Leopardi
Gabriele Rapagnetta influencedBy Giacomo Leopardi
subject surface form: Gabriele D'Annunzio