... recent alliance with the Nietzschean poststructuralism of Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, to Lenta ginestra (1987), his massive study of the Italian Romantic poet Giacomo Leopardi. Negri finds in Leopardi's work not only a sophisticated philosophy of language but also a materialist ontology...

... ), translated by Hardt Michael . BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LEOPARDI'S WORKS IN ENGLISH The Canti, with a Selection of His Prose ( Manchester : Carcanet , 1994 ), translated by Nichols J.G. . Operette Morali—Essays and Dialogues , bilingual edition ( Berkeley : U of California P , 1982...

... Enrico . Leopardi und die deutsche Kritik ( Freiburg : Muther , 1949 ). Colli Giorgio . Per un'enciclopedia di autori classici ( Milan : Adelphi , 1983 ). Garin Eugenio . La filosofia come sapere storico ( Bari : Laterza , 1959 ). Gladstone W.E. . Gleanings...

...: Bimestrale di politica e cultura.” September – October, 7 – 245. Lenta ginestra: Saggio sull’ontologia di Leopardi. 1987. Milan: Sugarco. Forth- coming. Translated into English by Timothy S. Murphy. Albany: State Uni- versity of New York Press. Fine secolo: Un manifesto per l’operaio...

... is one that Negri cites often in his writ- ings on Spinoza: “A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation on life, not on death” (ibid., E IV P67, 235). Like his precursors Lucretius, Spinoza, Giacomo Leopardi, Karl Marx, Gilles Deleuze, and Félix Guattari, Negri...