Dialogue Between Fashion and Death by Giacomo Leopardi

Dialogue Between Fashion and Death

Penguin Great Ideas #85

Giacomo Leopardi with Giovanni Cecchetti (Translator)

96 pages first pub 1824 (editions)

nonfiction essays philosophy reflective slow-paced
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Leopardi, poet and philosopher, explores in humorous but savage dialogue the power of fashion and its strange irrationality. He also imagines conversations between Hercules and Atlas, Nature and an Icelander, and the Earth and the Moon, as well as...

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