An antecedent to A? The first nucleus (20)[1] of what Leopardi would go on to call the Operette Morali was composed by the writer in 1824 and from what can be gleaned from the dating on the pages of A (a manuscript made up of 69 paper bifolia without a watermark, re-bound in the early 1900s with a covering of vellum and held at the Biblioteca … [Read more...]