Leopardi, Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco Salesio Saverio Pietro
June 29, 1798
– June 14, 1837 (aged 38)
Birth place: Recanati, Marche, Italy
Philosopher, poet, essayist, and philologist. Considered the greatest Italian poet of the 19th century and one of the greatest authors of his time worldwide,as well as one of the principals of literary Romanticism.