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Original title Operette morali | 4.3/5 Country Italy Originally published 1827 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Small Moral Works (Italian: Operette morali) is a collection of 24 writings (dialogues and fictional essays) by Italian poet and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi, written between 1824 and 1832.
The themes revolve around the philosophical ideas of the author: the relationship of mankind with History and Nature, the comparison with the valours of the past and the degenerated situation of the present, illusions, glory and boredom. One of the most famous dialogues is Dialogo della Natura e di un Islandese, in which the author expresses his main philosophical ideas, through the imaginary meeting, "in the heart of Africa", between a simple man coming from Iceland and a giant, beautiful and terrible woman, Nature, who has been chasing and oppressing him everywhere.
This is the list of the dialogues and essays:
(January 19 / February 7 1824)
(February 10 / February 13, 1824)
(February 15 / February 18, 1824)
(February 22 / February 25, 1824)
(March 2 / March 6, 1824)
(April 1 / April 3, 1824)
(April 9 / April 14, 1824)
(April 24 / April 28, 1824)
(April 30 / May 8, 1824)
(May 14 / May 19, 1824)
(May 21 / May 30, 1824)
(June 1 / June 10, 1824)
(June 14 / June 24, 1824)
(July 6 / August 30, 1824)
(August 16 / August 23, 1824)
(August 29 / September 26, 1824)
(October 19 / November 5, 1824)
(October 29 / (November 5, 1824)
November 10 / (November 16, 1824)
(autumn 1825)
(1827)
(1827)
(1832)
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