Townsend, Frederick

Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi; June 29, 1798 - June 14, 1837) was an Italian poet, essayist, philosopher, and philologist. Although he lived in a secluded town in the ultra-conservative Papal States, he came in touch with the main thoughts of the Enlightenment, and, by his own literary evolution, created a remarkable and renowned poetic work, related to the Romantic era.