From: Contemporary Review
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Date: 9/1/1997
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Author: Tripodi, Paolo
The commitment by the Department of Italian of University College Dublin to the study of Italian literature resulted in the translation and publication of the works of two major Italian authors: Giacomo Leopardi and Renzo Ricchi. Leopardi is one of the main figures of Italian literature and Romanticism in the last century. He lived a short and troubled life. In 1815 he was already a sickly seventeen-year-old who was spending his youth in his father's library. He read extensively in the ...
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