# Giacomo Leopardi's most famous poems

The most read, loved and studied poems of the Canti, from L'infinito to the Night Song, according to anthologies and literature sites.

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## Top 15

1. **The Infinite** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1819. A hedge, a hill and a mind that drifts away.
2. **To Silvia** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1828. The lost youth of a girl from Recanati.
3. **Saturday in the Village** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1829. Waiting for the holiday is better than the holiday.
4. **Night Song of a Wandering Shepherd in Asia** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1829-1830. A shepherd asks the moon about the meaning of life.
5. **The Calm after the Storm** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1829. Relief as the only pleasure.
6. **The Solitary Thrush** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The poet sees himself in a lonely bird.
7. **The Evening of the Holiday** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1820. The melancholy after a feast day.
8. **Broom, or the Flower of the Desert** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1836. His poetic testament, on the slopes of Vesuvius.
9. **Memories** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1829. Returning to the places and illusions of childhood.
10. **To the Moon** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1819. Memory that sweetens even pain.
11. **To Himself** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1833. His shortest and bitterest poem.
12. **Sappho's Last Song** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1822. The Greek poet and beauty denied.
13. **To Italy** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1818. The patriotic song that opens the Canti.
14. **The Setting of the Moon** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Among his last poems, written in Naples.
15. **The Dream** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1820-1821. A beloved woman appears in a dream.

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