Italy's great Romantic poet
Giacomo Leopardi is "badder" than today's trap musicians,
singer-songwriter Roberto Vecchioni said Wednesday.
"Giacomo Leopardi was 'badder' than today's trappers," the
Florentine artist said in accepting the annual La Ginestra prize
for popularising Leopardi's thought and works with last year's
album L'Infinito, named after the Marche poet's most popular
poem.
"(He worked) at a higher level, but he did not conceal the
authorities' hypocrisy, and a rage against social injustice.
"He was the pioneer of those who don't feel understood by
life. And still today he is loved by students for the melancholy
he expressed, and because kids, like him, don't understand the
world they have in front of them", said Vecchioni, a former
high-school teacher who now gives university lectures.
La Ginestra is another of Leopardi's greatest poems.
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