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Emanuele Severino has dedicated several essays to the extraordinary philosophical force of Leopardi's poetic thought, recognizing its fundamental importance for the definition of that essence of nihilism that has always been at the center of his reflection. Leopardi - Severino reminds us - faced the ultimate questions (truth, being, nothingness) to arrive at a language in which poetry becomes the supreme form of philosophy. At the same time, he laid the foundations in advance for that destruction of Western tradition that would then be continued, even if not in a more radical way, by Nietzsche and Heidegger. Illuminating its intimate human and intellectual coherence, and its tragic greatness, Severino reads the Leopardian corpus in the belief that the philosophy of the West, in its essence and in its most rigorous and powerful development, is the philosophy of Leopardi. With Emanuele Severino Cycle For the Love of Poetry Partner Unico Intesa Sanpaolo