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Dale W. Boyer

Beautiful "Antique" Poetry

Beoordeeld in de Verenigde Staten op 22 juni 2018

Giacomo Leopardi - Canti (trans Jonathan Galassi)

Despite being considered one of Italy's greatest poets, Leopardi is not well known in the United States. Indeed, I naively bought this book thinking he was a contemporary Italian poet, only to learn his dates were actually 1798-1837.
So, this is antique poetry, but poetry of the most beautiful kind. Leopardi often writes of love and loss personified by the death of a beautiful woman, but his metaphors are sophisticated, and his language is simple and emotional (the translations by Galassi are superb).
Indeed, Leopardi is absolutely expert at setting a scene briefly, quickly but indelibly. This is from "The Calm After the Storm:"

The storm is over:
I hear birds rejoicing, and the hen
is back in the road,
repeating her song. See, brightness
breaks through in the west, above the hills.
The countryside unveils,
and the river shimmers in the valley.
Every heart is happy,
and everywhere the hum revives,
The day's work starts anew.
The artisan comes to his door
singing, with his work in hand,
and stares up at the glistening sky. The young girl
rushes out to gather
fresh rainwater,
and the vegetable seller shouts
his daily shout again
from lane to lane.
Here's the sun returning, see him smile
on hills and farms. The servants
open windows, terraces, and loggias.
And from the highway I can hear
bells chiming in the distance; the carriage screams
as the traveler sets off again.

This is such a fantastic description of the Italian countryside after a rainstorm that it can perhaps best be summed-up only by quoting yet another of Leopardi's beautiful lines:

"The world's described on one brief page."

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Bilingual edition with very good translations into English

Beoordeeld in het Verenigd Koninkrijk op 10 december 2019

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The book arrived promptly and is in very good condition. It is great to have a bilingual edition of these poems. The translations seem, so far, to be of a high standard. Very pleased with this purchase.

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Beoordeeld in Spanje op 10 februari 2024

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Mrs S McCaul

It was bought as a present but I glanced through it and the poems are really beautiful.

Beoordeeld in het Verenigd Koninkrijk op 23 januari 2017

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A lovely book. It was bought as a present but I glanced through it and the poems are really beautiful.

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Jonathan A. Weiss

descartes

Beoordeeld in de Verenigde Staten op 30 januari 2011

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A very nidely produced volume.Giacomo Leopardi is one of the worlds great and gloomiest poets well worthy of being well presented. Galassi has obviously worked hard on the daunting task of translation. It is very good that the book is bi-lingual with facing pages, owever, since he appears to make mistakes and sometimes miss nuances. For those who read Italian his translation may provide words and alternate ways to consider what is written, for those who know some Italian the cross reference can illuminate. Anyone interest in poetry should read this verse, and if possible, read it in Italian out loud for the rhyme and meter.

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Guarina

Modernity and its emotions

Beoordeeld in de Verenigde Staten op 15 mei 2013

Geverifieerde aankoop

Good translation of one of Europe's most significant 1800 poets. Yearning, longing, expressed in most beautiful euphony not lost in the English version. If you like Romanticism (Goethe, Keats, Shelley) you will find pleasure in this book I read the Italian aloud and my partner reads the English!

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Wilbur F. Pierce

Certainly one of the finest lyric poets of all time.

Beoordeeld in de Verenigde Staten op 5 februari 2019

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I gave the book as a gift to a poet friend of mine. He says the translation is very nice. I didn't see it myself, but Leopardi is not that difficult to translate. I can't really compare this translation to others as I have never read his poems except in Italian.

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Francescamaria

Canti: poesia per italiani

Beoordeeld in de Verenigde Staten op 30 januari 2011

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All this fury over the translation nuances of words! The translation is beautifully coherent and conveys the linguistic beauty of the poet in all of his emotional moods. Most individuals who purchase this book will, I hope, understand that they are not purchasing a word for word translation of poems...when one translates anything into another language one translates a thought...not words. Galassi does this extremely well. And then, remember also, some words are not completely translatable. Languages are not 100 % interchangeable! If you have an argument with this translation....read Leopardi in the Italian!

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jimmnpls

Leopardi

Beoordeeld in de Verenigde Staten op 19 maart 2020

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If you don't know Leopardi--and it's unfortunate that more Americans, even well-educated and well-read Americans, don't, this is a great place to start

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Scribblerus

Exactly what I ordered

Beoordeeld in de Verenigde Staten op 16 december 2020

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Prompt delivery, arrived in good shape--and it's a great book at a good price.

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