Born: June 29, 1798 in Recanti, Italy
Died: June 14, 1837
He was an Italian poet and prose writer. Also he was one of 5 children. In his life he suffered from illness/plagues, and his parents refused to give him financial support. A fellow philologist, Pietro Giordani, opened to him the world beyond his "savage native town." Afterward, he traveled to Rome, Milan, Bologna, Pisa, Florence, and Naples, never venturing beyond the Alps because of his frail constitution, and even refusing the Dante Alighieri chair offered to him by the University of Bonn. The poet both expected and invoked death, which came to him in Naples in 1837, shortly after he had dictated his last poem.

Romanticism

Author Count Giacomo Leopard