Do you want to discover unpublished aspects of an author awkwardly met in a school manual? Was Giacomo Leopardi an atheist or did he retain something of the religious education he received?

This will talk about the scholar Loretta Marcon during the conference "Giacomo Leopardi: unhappiness, guilt and misfortune of ugliness", which will take place Saturday, March 18 at 15.30, at the Hall of the Regency of Asiago.

The meeting will be introduced by Dr. Lisa Cortese and, to those who request it, a certificate of participation will be issued. 
At the end there will be a buffet prepared by the Asiago Hotel Institute.

The event aims to celebrate World Poetry Day, which occurs on 21 March. 

Admission is free and open to all.

Loretta Marcon has a degree in Pedagogy, Philosophy, Modern Philology and a Master's degree in Religious Sciences. 
For thirty years he has been passionately dealing with Giacomo Leopardi, to whom he has dedicated numerous publications. With his works he has won several awards, including "La Ginestra" (2007) and "Il Convivio" (2020). In 1998, on the occasion of the bicentenary of Leopardi, he collaborated with the Department of Italian Studies of the University of Padua in the realization of the Leopardi and Venetian culture bibliographic exhibition. In 2009 he founded and administers daily, on the social Facebook, the Group "Club amici di Giacomo (Leopardi)" which today has 3865 members including scholars and enthusiasts.

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