Mariathomas
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Giacomo Leopardi was born in Recanati, in the Marche, at the time ruled by the papacy, of a local noble family. He was the the greatest Italian poet since Dante, loved what is not directly given in life. Leopardi's rejection of the Catholicism of his childhood and Enlightenment optimism gives his work a contemporary feel. In J.G. Nichols's translations we grasp the consistent strain of thought in writing, including a biography woven of Leopardi's own words. In much of his poetry, Leopardi almost cruelly stresses his belief that joy is nothing but the momentary subsidence of pain and that only in death can man find lasting happiness.