Jonathan Galassi's translation of the Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi's work is reviewed here in the New York Times:
[Leopardi's] great love poems tend toward unrequited and otherwise unacknowledged adoration. His odes on Italy portray a fallen nation, one from which everything genuine seems to have disappeared. In Leopardi, beauty and grandeur always fade toward the horizon.
The New York Encounter will present a discussion on Leopardi's poetry with Jonathan Galassi, President and Publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux and others on January 17, 2011.