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L’immagine della voce. Leopardi, Platone e il libro morale

If only one of the double-weighting requests is accepted, 'Il rifugio dell’apparenza. Il paganesimo post-metafisico di Leopardi' should be assessed as reserve.

L'immagine della voce brings to a head the painstaking research, conducted over more than a decade, that has enabled D'Intino to uncover Plato as Leopardi's secret antagonist in the Zibaldone and the Operette morali, and to establish his prominence in these works for the first time. In identifying (and challenging) Plato’s theory of ideas as the beginning of modern Western thought, Leopardi anticipates Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy. This book, based on D'Intino's acquisition of a profound knowledge of ancient Greek philosophy, and of Plato in particular, opens radical new perspectives on Leopardi's distinctive stance in the context of nineteenth-century philosophy."