Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837). Poet.

Italian poet, scholar, and philosopher who were an outstanding scholarly and philosophical works and superb lyric poetry place him among the great writers of the 19th century. He poured out his hopes and his bitterness in poems such as Appressamento della morte (written 1816, published 1835; "Approach of Death"), a visionary work in terza rima, imitative of Petrarch and Dante but written with considerable poetic skill and inspired by a genuine feeling of despair

Michel 595,Sassone 430, AFA 527

Date of issue: 1937

Face value: 50 c.

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