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Leopardi

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

noun

  1. Count Gia·co·mo [jah, -k, uh, -moh, jah, -kaw-maw], 1798–1837, Italian poet.


Leopardi

/ leoˈpardi /

noun

  1. LeopardiGiacomo17981837MItalianWRITING: poetPHILOSOPHY: philosopher Count Giacomo (ˈdʒaːkomo). 1798–1837, Italian poet and philosopher, noted esp for his lyrics, collected in I Canti (1831)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

By the cast of his mind and the course of his inward experience he was drawn towards Leopardi.

In later years Lenau's verses, like those of Leopardi in Italy, became ever more melancholy, owing partly to inherited tendencies.

This may be seen by a reference to Leopardi, who is perhaps the greatest stylist of the century.

And after dinner when he smoked, and she read Leopardi aloud to him, the frosted cake was quite forgotten.

By the side of his cruel clearness the satire of Carlyle is bluster, the diatribes of Leopardi shrill and thin.

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