Giacomo Leopardi

Bio: Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi was an Italian poet essayist philosopher and philologist. Although he lived in a secluded town in the ultraconservative Papal States he came in touch with the main thoughts of the Enlightenment and by his own literary evolution created a remarkable and renowned poetic work related to the Romantic era.

Born: June 29, 1798 in Italy