Translator's Note From: Poetry | Date: April 1, 2008| Author: Galassi, Jonathan | Copyright Poetry Foundation Apr 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Leopardi's canzone "To His Lady" was written in 1823, as the twentyfive-year-old poet was about to embark on the philosophical essays and dialogues of the Operette morali. As he later wrote:

The lady, who is the beloved of the author, is one of those images, one of those celestial and ineffable phantoms of beauty and virtue, which often come to our imagination during sleep or sleeplessness, when we are little more than children, and then on rare occasions in sleep, or in a sort of alie...

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