Giacomo Leopardi. Poems / Giacomo Leopardi: Canti

The Great Poet Jacomo Leopard contemporaries called the "Italian Bayron", His highly appreciated Pushkin and Schopenhauer, and in Russia they were often compared with Bratzynsky. By the influence of which he had on European literature, this poet is comparable to Petrarch. It is hardly an Italian schoolboy who will not be able to read the poems of the leopard.
A collection of "songs" was created by the poet, in fact, throughout his short, broken up at the thirty-eight years of life - from 1818 to 1836. In all the epochs of the Leopard poem were extremely modern and found a lively response in the souls of readers. As it should be the works of the present classics, his poems gouted the element of the actual one - they were on the point of time - and incredit. In Russia, the songs of the Leopard were read in the middle of the XIX century. Then he was read and translated Ahmatov, Gumilev, Vyach. Ivanov, Merezhkovsky, Balmont, Plescheev, Naiman. Actually, these translations that have become an integral part of the Russian literary heritage are the bulk of the proposed bilingual collection