Abstract

Ensuing from the suggestion of a possible and so far unpublished source of lyric poetry (the Oracle of Dodona) and the light it casts on the text, the essay is again questioning the fundamental turning points of Leopardi’s masterpiece: the function of the «how» and the «voice», the sense of «comparing» and «remembering»; what is the «sweet shipwreck» and in which sea does the thought «drown»? What kind of experience does Leopardi refer to with regard to the infinite? And what sort of experiment does the poet try to perform