Leopardi: Selected PoemsThese translations of the major poems of Giacomo Leopardi (1798 1837) render into modern English verse the work of a writer who is widely regarded as the greatest lyric poet in the Italian literary tradition. In spite of this reputation, and in spite of a number of nineteenth and twentieth century translations, Leopardi's poems have never come over into English in such a way as to guarantee their author a recognition comparable to that of other great