The Modern Language Review, October 1st, 2003
Women and Feminine Images in Giacomo Leopardi, 1797-1837: Bicentenary Essays. By LYNNE PRESS and PAMELA WILLIAMS. (Studies in Italian Literature, 7) Lewiston: Mellen. 1999. xiv + 272 pp. 74.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7734-7929-5. This collection of essays, one of the many volumes designed to mark the bicentenary of Leopardi's birth, deals with the place of 'the feminine' in Leopardi's work. The authors have each contributed three essays and the topics examined include the influence of the women in Leopardi's life, the impact of women writers on his thinking, and the feminine in his poetry: ...
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