Background
Giacomo Leopardi was born into a family of a noble aristocrat Count Monaldo Leopardi on June 29, 1798 in Recanati, a small village in Italy. Since childhood Giacomo had bed health and had to study at home. His father was interested in philosophy, politics and literature and owned a personal library with books on these subjects. He was keen on providing his son the best education. It is for this reason Giacomo had expensive private tutors and was learnt Latin, Greek, English, French, and Spanish.
Giacomo hated his home village and made several attempts to leave. He left Recanati for Rome, but as he couldn’t find job because of his physical disabilities, he had to come back home. Throughout his life, Leopardi struggled to support himself financially through writing but poverty forced him to depend on his friends. During all his life Giacomo suffered, his heart was broken, he was in depression and his health was declining. He died of a heart failure in 1837.