# To The Moon

An audiobook by Giacomo Leopardi, read by LibriVox volunteers (20 min, English).

Giacomo Leopardi is a great name in Italy among philosophers and poets, but is quite unknown in this country, and Mr. Townsend has the honor of introducing him, in the most captivating way, to his countrymen. In Germany and France he has excited attention. Translations have been made of his works; essays have been written on his ideas. But in England his name is all but unheard of. Six or seven years ago Mr. Charles Edwards published a translation of the essays and dialogues, but no version of the poems has appeared, so far as I know. Leopardi was substantially a poet,—that is to say, he had imagination, sentiment, passion, an intense love of beauty, a powerful impulse towards things ideal. (O. B. Frothingham, from the Preface of The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi)

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## Chapters

1. To The Moon - Read by ALP (1:23): https://archive.org/download/to_the_moon_1706.poem_librivox/tothemoon_leopardi_alp_64kb.mp3
2. To The Moon - Read by BK (1:31): https://archive.org/download/to_the_moon_1706.poem_librivox/tothemoon_leopardi_bk_64kb.mp3
3. To The Moon - Read by DL (1:17): https://archive.org/download/to_the_moon_1706.poem_librivox/tothemoon_leopardi_dl_64kb.mp3
4. To The Moon - Read by DW (1:20): https://archive.org/download/to_the_moon_1706.poem_librivox/tothemoon_leopardi_dw_64kb.mp3
5. To The Moon - Read by ED (1:25): https://archive.org/download/to_the_moon_1706.poem_librivox/tothemoon_leopardi_ed_64kb.mp3
6. To The Moon - Read by EL (1:37): https://archive.org/download/to_the_moon_1706.poem_librivox/tothemoon_leopardi_el_64kb.mp3
7. To The Moon - Read by GB (1:29): https://archive.org/download/to_the_moon_1706.poem_librivox/tothemoon_leopardi_gb_64kb.mp3
8. To The Moon - Read by GG (1:35): https://archive.org/download/to_the_moon_1706.poem_librivox/tothemoon_leopardi_gg_64kb.mp3
9. To The Moon - Read by JH (1:30): https://archive.org/download/to_the_moon_1706.poem_librivox/tothemoon_leopardi_jh_64kb.mp3
10. To The Moon - Read by LLW (1:32): https://archive.org/download/to_the_moon_1706.poem_librivox/tothemoon_leopardi_llw_64kb.mp3
11. To The Moon - Read by NR (1:27): https://archive.org/download/to_the_moon_1706.poem_librivox/tothemoon_leopardi_nr_64kb.mp3
12. To The Moon - Read by PS (1:09): https://archive.org/download/to_the_moon_1706.poem_librivox/tothemoon_leopardi_ps_64kb.mp3
13. To The Moon - Read by TP (1:24): https://archive.org/download/to_the_moon_1706.poem_librivox/tothemoon_leopardi_tp_64kb.mp3
14. To The Moon - Read by VB (1:27): https://archive.org/download/to_the_moon_1706.poem_librivox/tothemoon_leopardi_vb_64kb.mp3