Appearing for the first time in its entirety in English, Zibaldone amasses the unprecedented brilliance of Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) into one groundbreaking, 2,500-page text. Widely regarded as Italy’s finest modern lyric poet, Leopardi spent years cultivating and refining his radical and incisive analyses of religion, philosophy, language, history, anthropology, translation, the natural sciences, literature, poetry, and love in his Zibaldone.
To commemorate this extraordinary, epochal publication, a panel of experts and admirers will read selections and represent the different voices of Leopardi in Zibaldone on stage, including Jonathan Galassi, Michael Caesar, Franco D’Intino, Ann Goldstein, Joseph Luzzi, Paul Muldoon, Adam Kirsch, Lee Froehlich, Dorothea Lasky, Nicola Gardini, Susan Bernofsky, and Paolo Valesio.
New York City, NY; NYC