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Article: Pseudo-Omero e Giacomo Leopardi. Batracomiomachia e Paralipomeni.(Book Review)
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- Italica
- Article date:
- June 22, 2003
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Ed. Pierpaolo Fornaro. Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 1999.
The bicentennial of Leopardi's birth was the occasion for many scholars to celebrate the poet's life and work, producing an extensive bibliography of critical studies. Many have examined Leopardi in the context of European Romanticism, while others consider his oeuvre from an interdisciplinary point of view. That scholars have turned their attention to bis less widely read works is yet another windfall. Such is the case for the poet's satirical poem, the Paralipomeni della Batracomiomachia, a dense and difficult work. Like all satire, Leopardi's epic fable about the war between mice and frogs targets ...