Giacomo Leopardi
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Count Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi was an Italian poet, philosopher, essayist, and philologist. Considered the greatest Italian poet of the 19th century and one of the
Posthumous portrait (1897) by Stanislao Ferrazzi
The Palazzo Leopardi in Recanati
A portrait of Leopardi
Leopardi on his deathbed
Alessandro Manzoni
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Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni was an Italian philosopher, poet, playwright, and novelist. He is best known for the novel The Betrothed, generally ranked among the masterpieces of world
Giacomo Leopardi
…He is widely seen as one of the most radical and challenging thinkers of the 19th century, and one of the crowns of Italian Romanticism together with Alessandro Manzoni, even if he expressed different and sometimes opposing positions compared to the latter. Although he lived in a secluded town in the conservative Papal…
Portrait of Alessandro Manzoni by Francesco Hayez (Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, 1841)
Manzoni's family in a drawing by Ernesta Legnani Bisi
Illustration for the tragedy Il Conte di Carmagnola by Francesco Hayez
Frontispiece of The Betrothed in the second definitive edition of 1840–1842