Giacomo Leopardi

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Profession
Poet
Died
Jun 14, 1837
Zodiac
Cancer
Born in
Italy
About
Italian poet and author known for a prose masterpiece entitled Operette Morali, as well as for starkly beautiful, despair-driven poems. His best-known poems include "Alla sua donna," "Risorgimento," and "A Silvia."
Family
He was born to an Italian count in the papal town of Recanati.

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