Aspasia Comments
At times thy image to my mind returns,
Aspasia. In the crowded streets it gleams
Upon me, for an instant, as I pass,
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Leopardi’s most legendary Pensieri di varia filosofia e di bella letteratura (Zibaldone) , a notebook based on seven volumes was written during 1817 and sometime in 1830s but was published during 1898-1900. This brilliant work represents the philosophical face of Leopardi. It also reflects his tremendously pessimistic outlook on life.
I worship the works and the utterly sad love-life of the great Giacomo Leopardi.My own life unfolds in the same way as him.I also became so unhappy through unfulfilled love yearnings after a bewitchingly pretty woman, as happened with him.I could thoroughly understand his aching feelings of forlornness, helplessness and hopelesness.The lustful countess Fanny from Florence teased playfully him but never made true bodily love with him, although she was sleeping in the same time with so many other men.She led him right away to his untimely death.May her whorish soul be cursed forever in the grave.
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7/28/2025 2:40:17 PM # 1.0.0
It is said that Leopardi was deeply impressed by the Florentine noblewoman Fanny Ronchivecchi Targioni Tozzetti, who was famous both for her beauty and literary acquaintances (btw, she was the wife of Antonio Targioni Tozzetti, a Florentine chemist and botanist) . His was an unrequited passion, not a true love affair, but from such sad experience - a deep disillusionment to him - Leopardi drew inspiration for the so-called ''cycle of Aspasia'': « Angelica beltade! Parmi ogni più bel volto, ovunque io miro, quasi una finta imago il tuo volto imitar. Tu sola fonte d'ogni altra leggiadria, sola vera beltà parmi che sia » (Giacomo Leopardi, 'Il pensiero dominante', vv.130-135, dal ''Ciclo di Aspasia'')