Program

Research Programs: Translations

Period of Performance

4/1/1980 - 8/31/1980

Funding Totals

$5,500.00 (approved)
$5,500.00 (awarded)


Translation of selections from the "Zibaldone" by Giacomo Leopardi

FAIN: RL-*0473-80

Martha J. King
Princeton University (Princeton, NJ 08540-5228)

To support an annotated translation of selections from the "Zibaldone" (Notebooks) of Giacomo Leopardi, a 19th-century Italian poet. Written between 1817 and 1832, the text is an important repository of the aesthetic, philologi-cal, social, historical and philosophical ideas of Leopardi.