Zibaldone
Page 388
2. Leopardi refers here to Forcellini, under coena.
Z 4520
1. The pun ozio/negozio [leisure/activity] is lost in English.
2. Both quotations are from Imperatoris Caesaris Augusti temporum notatio genus et scriptorum fragmenta, ed. J. A. Fabricius, Hamburg 1727, pp. 162–63 and 223 (Pacella).
Z 4521
1. This title echoes one of the separate slips not referred to in the 1827 Index, where it is headed simply “Vulgar Latin.” Leopardi’s interest in Vulgar Latin is long-standing. The same project is alluded to in 1821 on Z 1012–13 (see note 3).
Z 4522
1. Leopardi alludes to the “liberal arts” which formed the basic curriculum of late classical and medieval education: Grammar, Dialectics or Logic, Rhetoric (trivium); Music, Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy (quadrivium).
Z 4523
1. A follow-up from Z 4518.
Z 4524
1. In September 1829 Leopardi was in Recanati. In the course of this month he composed three of his most celebrated poems: “Le ricordanze,” “La quiete dopo la tempesta,” and “Il sabato del villaggio.”
2. This is the last note written in Recanati. Leopardi left for Bologna and Florence on 30 April. He never came back to his birthplace. Note that the following entry is written thirteen months later. Although he took the ms. with him, his departure virtually coincides with the end of the Zibaldone.
3. See Z 4481 and note 1.
4. Cicero, De officiis 3, 13, 54.
5. The Catalogue of the collection of Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino, was published in Viterbo in 1829. Leopardi saw the review by D.-R. Rochette in the Journal des Savans (February 1830), hence the title in French (Pacella).
6. This tome of the Ast edition was seen by Leopardi in Rome in 1832.
Z 4525
1. Leopardi translates this quotation from Plato’s Crito.
2. See Z 163 and note 1.
Z 4526
1. See Z 1387, 1436–37, 1866–69, 2523–24. In this last entry, the Book and the World become one—in the end.
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