To The Moon: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

To The Moon, 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 volunteers bring you 14 recordings of To The Moon by Giacomo Leopardi. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 28, 2017. Read in English by Algy Pug; Bruce Kachuk; David Lawrence; Don Will; Eva Davis; Newgatenovelist; Garth Burton; Greg Giordano; Jude; Leonard Wilson; Nemo; Phil Schempf; Tomas Peter and tovarisch. Giacomo Leopardi is a great name in Italy among philosophers and poets, but is quite unknown in this country, and Mr. Townsend has the honor of introducing him, in the most captivating way, to his countrymen. In Germany and France he has excited attention. Translations have been made of his works; essays have been written on his ideas. But in England his name is all but unheard of. Six or seven years ago Mr. Charles Edwards published a translation of the essays and dialogues, but no version of the poems has appeared, so far as I know. Leopardi was substantially a poet,—that is to say, he had imagination, sentiment, passion, an intense love of beauty, a powerful impulse towards things ideal. (O. B. Frothingham, from the Preface of The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi)

Recording facts

• Recording title: To The Moon
• Author credits: Giacomo Leopardi
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 14
• Listed recording duration: 20:06

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• nature
• philosophy
• moon

Track guide

1. 01 - To The Moon - Read by ALP — 1:23
2. 02 - To The Moon - Read by BK — 1:31
3. 03 - To The Moon - Read by DL — 1:17
4. 04 - To The Moon - Read by DW — 1:19
5. 05 - To The Moon - Read by ED — 1:25
6. 06 - To The Moon - Read by EL — 1:37
7. 07 - To The Moon - Read by GB — 1:29
8. 08 - To The Moon - Read by GG — 1:35
9. 09 - To The Moon - Read by JH — 1:30
10. 10 - To The Moon - Read by LLW — 1:32
11. 11 - To The Moon - Read by NR — 1:27
12. 12 - To The Moon - Read by PS — 1:09
13. 13 - To The Moon - Read by TP — 1:24
14. 14 - To The Moon - Read by VB — 1:27

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