Leopardi e 'le ragioni della verita': scienze e filosofia della natura negli scritti leopardiani. By GASPARE POLIZZI. Preface by REMO BODEI. Rome: Carocci. 2003. xx + 290pp. 19.60 [euro]. ISBN 88-430-2818-9.
Gaspare Polizzi, who is Professor of the History of Science at the University of Florence, offers the most substantial study to date of Leopardi's prodigious knowledge of the sciences, of astronomy, physics, chemistry, and biology in particular. Leopardi may have felt ...