Giacomo Leopardi - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • In "The Part about the Crimes", the fourth part of Roberto Bolaño's novel 2666, Canto notturno di un pastore errante dell'Asia is extensively quoted by a television psychic named Florita Almada who somewhat confuses it for an account of the early life of Benito Juárez.
  • Samuel Beckett refers to Leopardi's work several times in his critical study Proust.
  • The title of Carlo Forlivesi's album, Silenziosa Luna, is a quotation from the same poem.

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