Ginestra

poem by Leopardi

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  • Leopardi, Giacomo
    In Giacomo Leopardi

    …among other works, he wrote Ginestra (1836), a long poem included in Ranieri’s posthumous collection of his works (1845). The death that he had long regarded as the only liberation came to him suddenly in a cholera epidemic in Naples.

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