Leopardi

[ lee-uh-pahr-dee, ley-; Italian le-aw-pahr-dee ]

/ ˌli əˈpɑr di, ˌleɪ-; Italian ˌlɛ ɔˈpɑr di /

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noun

Count Gia·co·mo

[jah-kuh-moh; Italian jah-kaw-maw], /ˈdʒɑ kəˌmoʊ; Italian ˈdʒɑ kɔ mɔ/, 1798–1837, Italian poet.

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How to use Leopardi in a sentence

By the cast of his mind and the course of his inward experience he was drawn towards Leopardi.
The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi|Giacomo Leopardi
In later years Lenau's verses, like those of Leopardi in Italy, became ever more melancholy, owing partly to inherited tendencies.
A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year|Edwin Emerson
This may be seen by a reference to Leopardi, who is perhaps the greatest stylist of the century.
We Philologists, Volume 8 (of 18)|Friedrich Nietzsche
And after dinner when he smoked, and she read Leopardi aloud to him, the frosted cake was quite forgotten.
Paths of Judgement|Anne Douglas Sedgwick

By the side of his cruel clearness the satire of Carlyle is bluster, the diatribes of Leopardi shrill and thin.
Henrik Ibsen|Edmund Gosse

British Dictionary definitions for Leopardi

Leopardi

/ (Italian leoˈpardi) /

noun

Count Giacomo (ˈdʒaːkomo). 1798–1837, Italian poet and philosopher, noted esp for his lyrics, collected in I Canti (1831)

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