Ten Steps

This volume contains 10 essays that investigate the legacy of the ideas and poetry of Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837). They rethink his work from various perspectives, discussing questions of transnational crossings and cultural translation and translatability, including misreadings of Leopardi in English and the Zibaldone as a non-linear work and its challenges for book-making; issues of foreignness in his work, including the adoption of foreign words and Sanskrit references in the Zibaldone; desire in “L'infinito,” “Le Ricordanze,” and “La ginestra”; and Leopardi's position towards modernity, with discussion of nature and ethics, his atheism, and sexual and gender norms. Two essays are in Italian. Contributors are Italian studies and other scholars from Europe. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Fabio Camilletti is Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Warwick and Honorary Research Fellow at the Leopardi Centre, University of Birmingham. He has worked extensively on European literature of the Romantic age and has recently completed two monographs on Leopardi and Italian Romanticism.
Paola Cori is Honorary Research Fellow at the Leopardi Centre, University of Birmingham. She completed her PhD at Birmingham and was awarded a Giacomo Leopardi Prize by the Centro Nazionale di Studi Leopardiani. She has published articles in leading international journals and she is currently working on two monographs on Leopardi.