NY: Columbia University Press, 1983. 265pp. Black textured paper over boards; dust jacket. Slight spine twist (correctable with proper shelving). Else near fine in a jacket with fading to spine panel.
English-language translation of this series of twenty-four prose pieces exploring Leopardi's "views on many aspects of the human condition, and his metaphysical protest against the way things are." Issued as the first in a five-volume edition of selections from the oeuvre of Italian writer Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837), though subsequent volumes seem never to have been produced. Translated from the Italian by Patrick Creagh.
