Recanati
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Recanati is a comune in the province of Macerata, in the Italian region of Marche. Recanati was founded around 1150 AD from three pre-existing castles. In 1290 it proclaimed itself an independent repu
Civic Tower
Leopardi's palace
Town Hall
Santa Maria di Montemorello
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
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…aristocratic buildings, for the most part on three floors, built by merchants or landowners. It is the hometown of the tenor Beniamino Gigli and the poet Giacomo Leopardi, which is why the town is known to some as "the city of poetry". Famous medieval Ashkenazi Kabbalist Rabbi Menahem Recanati flourished here in the 13th…
Posthumous portrait (1897) by Stanislao Ferrazzi
A portrait of Leopardi
Leopardi on his deathbed