Moral Fables av Giacomo Leopardi

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<p>Alongside his monumental <i>Zibaldone </i>(<i>Notebooks</i>) and the poems collected in Canti, which make him one of Italy''s greatest and best-loved poets, Giacomo Leopardi penned a number of fictional pieces, mostly in the form of gently humorous dialogues, in which he dealt with philosophical ideas and many of the metaphysical questions that preoccupied his restless spirit.<br><br>First published in 1827 and here presented in a new translation by J.G. Nichols along with <i>Thoughts</i>, Leopardi''s own selected pearls of wisdom and gems of social observation, <i>Moral Fables </i>will enchant both those who are familiar with and those who are new to the works of Italy''s last great polymath.</p>