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Thoughts

by Giacomo Leopardi · 1830

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Still unfinished at the time of his death, Thoughts,now in its first English translation, represents Giacomo Leopardi's urgent desire to organize his lifetime's observations of mankind, life, and the world. Written by the greatest Italian poet and thinker of the 19th century, these timeless musings contain immense philosophical and psychological insight. Ranging from mankind to nature, social order to the individual soul, they reveal a man of brilliance struggling to reconcile all that he sees around him.

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adult
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short · 112 pages
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