Forms of Thinking in Leopardi’s Zibaldone: Religion, Science and Everyday Life in an Age of Disenchantment

Paola Cori

Forms of Thinking in Leopardi’s Zibaldone
Religion, Science and Everyday Life in an Age of Disenchantment

Paola Cori

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Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837), Italian poet

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Italian Perspectives 43

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23 September 2019 • 280pp

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For fifteen years between 1817 and 1832 Giacomo Leopardi’s notebook the Zibaldone grew like an expanding universe, recording the emergence and development of his thought until, on 4 December 1832, on page 4526, it fell silent. Philosophical reflections, private memories, poetry, observations on politics and society are only some of the creative expressions of Leopardi’s quest, which both enriched his everyday life and at the same time sheltered him from the tyranny of rationality and the death of illusions which he perceived as intrinsic to modernity. There is no other work in world literature quite like it, and yet, strictly speaking, the Zibaldone is not even a work. Private in character but constantly opening up to virtual interlocutors, it gained readers only on publication sixty years after Leopardi's death. Its importance in Western thought, however, is yet to be fully appreciated, not only in terms of its content but also in terms of its form.

In this major new study, Cori follows Leopardi’s philosophical journey and traces the origin of a sensibility towards the ephemeral, the hyper-real and the simulacrum, which would only truly be understood during modernity and post-modernity, and which Leopardi is the first Italian thinker to perceive.

Winner of the American Association for Italian Studies's Book Prize for the best book of 2019 in the Renaissance-through-to-19th-century category

See news item: 2019 AAIS Book Prize Winner (14 June 2020)

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‘Paola Cori has come to a powerful and comprehensive synthesis of her research perspective with a monograph which was awarded the AAIS Prize for Italian Studies... The form of Cori’s book is therefore the perfect counterpart to its content, which focuses on the Zibaldone’s formal and conceptual complexity.’ — Martina Piperno, Modern Language Review 116.4, October 2021, 658-60 (full text online)

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ix-ix	Abbreviations Paola Cori doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxc7.3	Cite
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x-xii	Acknowledgements Paola Cori doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxc7.4	Cite
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1-36	Introduction Paola Cori doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxc7.5	Cite
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39-48	Chapter 1 the Conscious and the Unconscious Paola Cori doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxc7.6	Cite
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49-52	Chapter 2 the Continuum and the Discrete Paola Cori doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxc7.7	Cite
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53-62	Chapter 3 the Psychology of Clarity Paola Cori doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxc7.8	Cite
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63-76	Chapter 4 ‘Ec. Ec. Ec.’: the Determinate and the Indeterminate Paola Cori doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxc7.9	Cite
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77-86	Chapter 5 Clarity and Confession Paola Cori doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxc7.10	Cite
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87-93	Chapter 6 Naturalness and Natural Law Paola Cori doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxc7.11	Cite
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94-100	Chapter 7 Naturalization of Religion Paola Cori doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxc7.12	Cite
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101-104	Chapter 8 Messianic Inclinations Paola Cori doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxc7.13	Cite
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105-114	Chapter 9 Naturalness As the Style of Grace Paola Cori doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxc7.14	Cite
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117-120	Chapter 10 Towards A Philosophy of Life and Technique Paola Cori doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxc7.15	Cite
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121-133	Chapter 11 the Heading ‘Vitalità, Sensibilità’ (i): Leopardi’s Elastic Writing Paola Cori doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxc7.16	Cite
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134-149	Chapter 12 Swarms of Birds: the Heading ‘Vitalità, Sensibilità’ (ii) and Leopardi’s Self-Adjusting Thought Paola Cori doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxc7.17	Cite
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150-163	Chapter 13 Electric Thought Paola Cori doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxc7.18	Cite
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164-171	Chapter 14 Disenchanted Mnemotechnics Paola Cori doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxc7.19	Cite
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172-186	Chapter 15 the Hypnotic Image: A Preliminary Contextualization Paola Cori doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxc7.20	Cite
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187-204	Chapter 16 Leopardi’s Philosophy of Exposure and Attenuation Paola Cori doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxc7.21	Cite
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207-213	Chapter 17 the Practice of Everyday Life Paola Cori doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxc7.22	Cite
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214-226	Chapter 18 Leopardi As Master and Student in the Zibaldone Paola Cori doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxc7.23	Cite
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227-244	Chapter 19 Metropolitan Encounters: Quotations and the Zibaldone ‘Index’ Paola Cori doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxc7.24	Cite
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245-247	Chapter 20 the End of the Zibaldone: Conclusions Paola Cori doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxc7.25	Cite
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248-261	Bibliography Paola Cori doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxc7.26	Cite
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262-268	Index Paola Cori doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxc7.27	Cite
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Forms of Thinking in Leopardi’s ZibaldoneReligion, Science and Everyday Life in an Age of Disenchantment

Paola Cori

Forms of Thinking in Leopardi’s Zibaldone
Religion, Science and Everyday Life in an Age of Disenchantment