Essays and Dialogues

About this film

LibriVox recording of Essays and Dialogues by Giacomo Leopardi. (Translated by Charles Edwardes.) Read in English by Mary J; Jia Jia Yong; chocmuse; Beth Thomas; Carolin Ksr; Peter Tucker; Zeeshan Reshamwala; ToddHW; Linda Dodge; Rapunzelina; Eric Metzler; Julia Niedermaier; Jack Daniel. "We would no more choose to feed the minds of our countrymen and women with the despairing utterances of the pessimist poet, than we would their bodies with hasheesh. Such melancholy as his clothed in such eloquent words may be the luxury of the idle; it is poison to those who have work to do in the world. It shuts out hope, the very spring of energy; it makes the cheerful steady pursuit of duty a thing utterly beyond human powers. For we can none of us stand alone. Either in human or divine love we must find the mainspring of all life worth living. There must be something outside of ourselves which we regard not with despair, but with hope." -- Handwritten dedication in the book, dated Feb. 19th, 1883 For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more f…

Directors & creators

Giacomo Leopardi

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks; fiction; dialog; humour; humor;

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