Favole vervi di Giacomo Leopardi. - 2010

Santa Lucia ai Monti, Verona:: Alessandro Zanella,, 2010.. Edition of 30. 7.25 x 11" Composed in Californian typeface. Printed letterpress on Hahnemuhle paper. Printing by Alessandro Zanella. Images by Peiera Luisolo. Text in Italian. Illustrated with linoleum prints by Piera Luisolo. In light weight black paper slipcase. Numbered. Signed by Luisolo. Notes from Favole in Versi: "Giacomo Leopardi was born in Recanati on 29 June 1798, the eldest of 10 children of Count Mondaldo and Adelaide of the Antici marquises. In 1908 he wrote his first poem - the sonnet: 'La morte di ettore' - and other compositions in prose and verse. Between 1809 and 1812 he wrote what are defined as childhood poems or puerile critti. The childish writings are practically the preparation for his creative production, the one to which Giacomo Leopardi owes his fame. Among them are, among other things, some fables, which were widely published after his death. The fairy tale was a typically eighteenth-century genre, like others in which the writer practiced." Leopardi poems/fairy tales included in this publication are I Filosofi, E il Cane (The philosophers and the dog); L'Asino, E La Pecora (the donkey and the sheep); ;Il sole, el la luna (The sun, and the moon); l'ucello (the bird); la rosa, il Giglio, e il serpillo (the rose, the lily, and the serpent); il pastore, e la serpe (the shepherd, and the serpent); I fringuelli (the finches);.