Ours is an age of exposure and self-exposure. Only what happens in public, we tend to believe, is really real; and it becomes more real the more people see it happen. This way of thinking is, among ...

In one of his notebooks from 1820, Giacomo Leopardi, the greatest Italian poet of the 19th century, wrote that “it is not enough to understand a true proposition; one must also feel the truth of it.” ...

View Marcello Leopardi’s artworks on artnet. Learn about the artist and find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks, the latest news, and sold auction prices.

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 11 - A major fresco cycle dating to the end of the 16th century and the start of the 17th has been found in the library of Casa Leopardi, the Marche home where Italy's greatest poet ...

Schopenhauer referred to him as his "spiritual brother"; Italians consider him one of their greatest ever intellects, and his thoughts have been said to "go beyond those of every other European man of ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Zibaldone: The Notebooks of Leopardi, by Giacomo Leopardi, edited by Michael Caesar and Franco D’Intino, Penguin ...

Italy's greatest 19th-century poet Giacomo Leopardi gets classic honors in Mario Martone’s sumptuous biopic starring Elio Germano By THR Staff Mario Martone, a film and stage helmer who once led a ...