Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Giacomo Leopardi
Born: June 29, 1798
Died: June 14, 1837 (aged 38)
Bio: Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi was an Italian poet, philosopher, essayist and philologist. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most radical and challenging thinkers of the 19th century.
Known for:
- Zibaldone di pensieri
- Canti (1835)
- L'infinito (1819)
- Small Moral Works (1827)
- Passions