Small Moral Works

Smal Moral Works

The title page of the expanded 1835 publication
Author Giacomo Leopardi
Original title Operette morali
Country Italy
Language Italian
Genre Philosophy
Published 1827 (1st edition)

Small Moral Works (Italian: Operette morali) is a collection of dialogues and fictional essays by italian poet and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi, written between 1824 and 1832.

The themes rotate around the philosophical ideas of the author: the relationship of mankind with History and Nature, the comparison with the valours of the past and the degenerated situation of the present, illusions, glory and boredom. One of the most famous dialogue is: Dialogo della Natura e di un Islandese, in which the author reverse his main philosophical ideas.

This is the list of the dialogues and essays: