All’Italia

All’Italia, vv. 1-20: sample from the Canzoni – Upon Italy and upon the monument to dante being prepared in Florence, Bourlié, Rome 1818, with hand written corrections, now at the Biblioteca Nazionale «Vittorio Emanuele III» in Naples. Source: Giacomo Leopardi, Canti, vol. 2, a photographic edition of manuscripts edited by  Emilio Peruzzi, BUR, Milan 1998.