The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi, credited to Giacomo Leopardi, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi by Giacomo Leopardi. (Translated by Frederick Townsend.) Read in English by rodgrover; Rosslyn Carlyle; John Trevithick; Jennifer Woodside; Nic Sebastian; Ken Masters; Anusha Iyer; sarah louise pieplow; Amanda Vickery; Filippo Festuccia; Stav Berman This is a volume of poems by Giacomo Leopardi. - Summary by Carolin

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi
• Author credits: Giacomo Leopardi
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 39
• Listed recording duration: 3:43:56

Opening tracks: first 24 of 39

1. 01 - Preface by O.B. Frothingham — 6:11
2. 02 - Dedication — 2:45
3. 03 - To Italy, 1818 — 7:13
4. 04 - On Dante's Monument, 1818 — 10:41
5. 05 - To Angelo Mai, on his Discovery of the Lost Books of Cicero, 'De Republica' — 8:37
6. 06 - To his Sister Paolina, on her Approaching Marriage — 5:43
7. 07 - To a Victor in the Game of Pallone — 3:57
8. 08 - The Younger Brutus — 8:45
9. 09 - To the Spring, or of the Fables of the Ancients — 6:06
10. 10 - Hymn to the Patriarchs, or of the Beginnings of the Human Race — 7:50
11. 11 - The Last Song of Sappho — 5:26
12. 12 - First Love — 5:26
13. 13 - The Lonely Sparrow — 3:12
14. 14 - The Infinite — 1:10
15. 15 - The Evening of the Holiday — 2:46
16. 16 - To the Moon — 1:08
17. 17 - The Dream — 6:57
18. 18 - The Lonely Life — 7:11
19. 19 - Consalvo — 8:56
20. 20 - To the Beloved — 3:00
21. 21 - To Count Carlo Pepoli — 8:24
22. 22 - The Resurrection — 6:21
23. 23 - To Sylvia — 4:02
24. 24 - Recollections — 9:21

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