Giacomo Leopardi: Poems Glossary

By Lina Christoph · Edited by Patrick Kennedy · Last reviewed July 27, 2020

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Written by Lina Christoph

celestial

angelic, heavenly

blithe

happy, carefree, cheerful

arid

dry, barren

smite

to attack, to torment

Phlegethon

From Greek mythology, one of the rivers in the underworld

forsooth

indeed, truly, in fact

verdant

green, grassy, blooming

avarice

greed, voracity

fount

origin, source

totter

to wobble, to stagger

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