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Book cover of Pensieri
by Giacomo Leopardi
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 7, 2012

Una raccolta di 111 considerazioni di Leopardi sull’uomo e sulla società, ma anche sul valore che lo scrittore dava alle sue esperienze amorose. Come nello Zibaldone, Leopardi riporta affermazioni poetiche e filosofiche, ma a differenza delle composizioni “zibaldoniane”, I pensieri furono scritti...
Book cover of Memorie del primo amore (Prometheus Classics)(Indice attivo)
by Giacomo Leopardi, Prometheus Classics
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 21, 2018

Questo libro contiene ora diversi sommari HTML che renderanno la lettura un vero piacere! Nel 1817 un avvenimento colpì profondamente Leopardi: l'incontro, nel dicembre dello stesso anno, con Geltrude Cassi Lazzari, una cugina di Monaldo, che fu ospite presso la famiglia per alcuni giorni e per la...
Book cover of Carissimo Signor Padre

Carissimo Signor Padre

Lettere a Monaldo

by Giacomo Leopardi
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 16, 2013

Vero e proprio “romanzo familiare”, complesso e delicato, ma anche storia di un’avventura intellettuale che racconta il desiderio di emulazione del padre da parte del figlio e il progressivo capovolgimento dei ruoli, fino alla decisa distinzione dei loro destini e delle loro identità.
Book cover of Elogio degli uccelli. Dialogo della moda
by Giacomo Leopardi
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 9, 2013

Nella veste tradizionale, cartacea, il volume tiene insieme due testi di Leopardi – L’elogio degli uccelli e Il dialogo della Moda e della Morte – in modo del tutto inusuale, con due fronti e rispettive copertine, ciascuna collocata in senso contrario all’altra, e testi che ne seguono il senso....
Book cover of Signore ed Amico amatissimo. Lettere all'editore Stella
by Giacomo Leopardi
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 11, 2014

La realtà culturale contemporanea e il mondo dei libri; le cure e le apprensioni con cui l’autore vive ogni volta l’avventura della stampa nella corrispondenza tra Leopardi e Stella, editore fra i più intraprendenti nella vivace Milano della Restaurazione.
Book cover of Lettere al fratello Carlo
by Giacomo Leopardi
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 16, 2013

Vario e intrigante corpus epistolare, nel quale passioni letterarie e affetti personali trovano un’uguale e avvincente rappresentazione.
Book cover of La Boheme
by Giacomo Puccini, Robin Norton-Hale
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012

OperaUpClose’s electric new English translation of La Bohème charts the ups and downs of a group of idealistic graduates as they bicker, party, try to make ends meet and follow their dreams. Having wowed audiences at The Cock Tavern Theatre in Kilburn in a record-breaking, sell-out six-month run,...
Book cover of Funereal
by Giacomo Lee
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015

Soobin Shin is an aspiring young woman in a near-future version of Seoul. Ever since her college graduation, she has struggled to escape from her dead-end job in a doughnut chain. Her twin sister Hyewon is one of Korea’s most recognizable models, but Soobin just can’t seem to find her lucky break…...
Book cover of The Metropolitan Opera Presents: Puccini's La Boheme
by Giacomo Puccini, Luigi Illica
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003

There's a reason La Bohème has been staged at the Met more often than any other opera: Puccini's enticing music perfectly conveys the enchantment of new young love and the anguish that comes with loss and death. La Bohème, the passionate and timeless story of love among impoverished young artists...
Book cover of Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 15: with Voltaire
by Arthur Machen, Giacomo Casanova
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011

M. de Voltaire; My Discussions with That Great Man— Ariosto— The Duc de
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Casanova

Venetian Years

by Giacomo Casanova
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016

At the time of Casanova's birth, the city of Venice thrived as the pleasure capital of Europe, ruled by political and religious conservatives who tolerated social vices and encouraged tourism. It was a required stop on the Grand Tour, traveled by young men coming of age, especially Englishmen. The famed...
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Casanova

The Eternal Quest

by Giacomo Casanova
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016

A book of confessions penned without reticence and without penitence; a record of forty years of occult charlatanism; a collection of tales of successful imposture, of bonnes fortunes, of marvellous escapes, of transcendent audacity, told with the humour of Smollett and the delicate wit of Voltaire.
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Casanova

In London and Moscow

by Giacomo Casanova
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016

The palaces and marble stairs of old Venice are no longer desolate, but thronged with scarlet-robed senators, prisoners with the doom of the Ten upon their heads cross the Bridge of Sighs, at dead of night the nun slips out of the convent gate to the dark canal where a gondola is waiting, we assist at...
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Casanova

Adventures in the South

by Giacomo Casanova
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016

He who opens these wonderful pages is as one who sits in a theatre and looks across the gloom, not on a stage-play, but on another and a vanished world. The curtain draws up, and suddenly a hundred and fifty years are rolled away, and in bright light stands out before us the whole life of the past; the...
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