Why are Leopardi and D'Annunzio so underrated? Why do those faggots Petrarch and Dante get all the attention? It's not fair.

>>21988158 (OP)

D'Annunzio is really annoying, i think he's mentioned too often. Leopardi is probably not appreciated enough I agree, probably cause Italian translates poorly. Petrarch is meh. Dante deserves all the attention he gets.

>>21988158 (OP)

>Leopardi is probably not appreciated enough I agree

Post poetry, original with translation.

please

Sempre caro mi fu quest’ermo colle,

e questa siepe, che da tanta parte

dell’ultimo orizzonte il guardo esclude.

Ma sedendo e mirando, interminati

spazi di là da quella, e sovrumani

silenzi, e profondissima quïete

io nel pensier mi fingo; ove per poco

il cor non si spaura. E come il vento

odo stormir tra queste piante, io quello

infinito silenzio a questa voce

vo comparando: e mi sovvien l’eterno,

e le morte stagioni, e la presente

e viva, e 'l suon di lei. Così tra questa

immensità s’annega il pensier mio:

e 'l naufragar m’è dolce in questo mare.

This lonely hill was always dear to me,

and this hedgerow, which cuts off the view

of so much of the last horizon.

But sitting here and gazing, I can see

beyond, in my mind’s eye, unending spaces,

and superhuman silences, and depthless calm,

till what I feel

is almost fear. And when I hear

the wind stir in these branches, I begin

comparing that endless stillness with this noise:

and the eternal comes to mind,

and the dead seasons, and the present

living one, and how it sounds.

So my mind sinks in this immensity:

and foundering is sweet in such a sea.

Post another. This one is too famous.

Holy kino who is this

>>21988158 (OP)

Leopardi is amazing.



D'Annunzio has such purple pose its kind of nausiating to read. He, like Richard Francis Burton, get attention because of their biographies but are second rate writers at best.

Leopardi

>>21988158 (OP)

Leopardi was a depressive deformed little man. He should be extremely popular here

D’annuzio is absolutely horrendous to read outside of Italian. His rythym is completely annihilated and all you’re left with is extremely purple prose. 90% of people who call d’annuzio underrated and not talked about here haven’t read anything from him desu.

I believe this guy has read d'Annunzio >>21988646 and no one else ITT. I think he gets less attention because his audience is going to be largely female if they ignore his politics, and the edgy /pol/tards who pick up his books in translations are probably like

>Where the fuck is the nazi shit?!? Why am I listening to a horny lady's fever dreams?!?!

I imagine the same thing happens with DH Lawrence except without it needing to be translated.
