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Journal of Modern Italian Studies
RIVISTA DI STUDI ITALIANI
Anno XVI , n° 2, Dicembre 1998 ( Contributi ) pag. 486-496

NUANCES IN IL SABATO DEL VILLAGGIO
BY GIACOMO LEOPARDI
TONIA CATERINA RIVIELLO
Santa Clara University,
Santa Clara, California
Among the many interpretations of Leopardi's poetry, we shall discuss a few linguistic nuances that the poet uses in rendering the microcosm and macrosm in the Sabato del villaggio in order to describe the four stages in the life of an individual, which he indirectly treats in the poem. This is the last poem in the Florentine edition of the Canti, published in April 1831, which Leopardi himself dedicated to his Tuscan friends. [...]
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