Leopardi, Giacomo, modern Italian poet, born near Ancona; a precocious genius; an omnivorous reader as a boy, and devoted to literature; of a weakly constitution, he became a confirmed invalid, and died suddenly; had sceptical leanings; wrote lyrics inspired by a certain sombre melancholy (1788‒1837).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Leonids * Leopold I.