Argumentative text on Giacomo Leopardi that exposes the most significant traits of the life and poetics of the author from Recanati.
ARGUMENTATIVE TEXT ON GIACOMO LEOPARDI
Explain the most significant features of the life and poetics of Giacomo Leopardi , referring to the passages studied . Essay developed by a student: Giacomo Leopardi is the greatest lyric poet of Romanticism , a complex cultural movement that spread in Europe between the end of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century and that re-evaluates the imagination, the feeling, the thought of the single individual and the patriotic ardour.
Giacomo Leopardi was born in Recanati in 1798 to a noble family. He grew up in a very oppressive provincial environment, aggravated by his father’s indifference and his mother’s excessive severity.
Very precocious in interests and intellectual abilities, he spent the age between ten and seventeen locked in his father’s library where he learned the use of all modern languages, Hebrew, Latin and Greek. This exaggerated study caused him much damage to his nervous system and eyesight. Intolerant of the cultural backwardness of Recanti, he asked permission to move to Rome and obtained it in 1822, but this stay only served to sharpen his pessimism towards the world, so he wandered around other Italian towns, such as Milan, Bologna and Florence, always however returning to his beloved and hated native town, ready to leave again as soon as possible. In the meantime his health conditions worsened, so in 1833 he moved to Naples, where, comforted by his friend Antonio Ranieri, he died in 1837.
