Nietzsche e il pessimismo di Leopardi

My paper focuses on the profound influence that Leopardi’s works had on Nietzsche, who considered him as a pessimist in the same manner as Schopenhauer. In particular, I will analyze the concept of the “Overhistorical” (das Überhistorische) in the second Unzeitgemässe Betrachtung and the concept of the “eternal recurrence” in Also sprach Zarathustra. Furthermore, I will dwell on Nietzsche’s encounter with Leopardi’s poetry.