#leopardi+ranieri

[valentina-lauricella]

Quel ch'io sento per lui non mi par cosa mortale

Dalla lettera di Antonio Ranieri a Giovanni Battista Niccolini in data 10 Novembre 1844:

"Io sono stato infermo nell'ottobre per l'amarissima tenerezza della memoria del Leopardi: e veramente l'esser fatto di terra sensibile è troppo funesto dono. Ho avuto bisogno di un mese intero di ferie per collocare nel suo posto quel monumentino già da gran tempo finito. La chiesetta di S. Vitale a Posilipo è aggregata alla diocesi di Pozzuoli. Chi può dirvi quante volte sono dovuto andare ad inchinare quel vescovo per ottenere i debiti permessi! Il permesso già datone dall'antecessore non giovava! Ed in mezzo ad opere così lacrimevoli e pietose, in contrade così allagate da ogni più grave e pestifera superstizione, giungere un solenne articolo del Sainte-Beuve in cui si prova con documenti l'ateismo del defunto. Dio onnipotente! Che secolo è questo che viviamo! Tanto grande ingegno ci vuole per intendere le terribili conseguenze che un discorso tale può portare in contrade tali! Ah! quanto desidero di vedervi per narrarvi quel che ho dovuto spendere e soffrire. Ma lasciamo ciò; e, rispondendo, usate in subiecta materia, gli universali. La cassa in cui giacciono i suoi avanzi, volli colle mie braccia trasferirla dalla stanza sotterranea nel vestibolo della chiesa, dove l'ho fatta murare sotto il monumento. Ebbi l'imprudenza d'aprirla. Oh Dio! Nulla potette il piombo e l'iniezione contro un disfacimento cominciato già molti anni prima della morte! Gli avanzi della carne disseccata mi rendettero più atroce lo spettacolo, perchè l'occhio offuscato e stupido di lacrime e di dolore cercava le antiche forme sotto la nuova dissoluzione. Insomma nulla mi valse l'avere nella mia passione per la notomia veduti migliaia di cadaveri e rotte e cincischiate molte ossa e carne umana. Il cuore non obbedisce alle infami leggi della materia; e quindi stesso io traggo un argomento contrario alla fiera sentenza che parve sì certa al defunto. Quel ch'io ho sentito e sento e sentirò per lui non mi pare cosa mortale; o almeno non posso concepirla come tale. Ora un solido marmo custodisce quelle ossa. Preghiamo l'Altissimo che i liberali (i neo-guelfi) non pervengano a turbarne l'eterno riposo."

[yolothh]

Viktor really meant the "in all timelines, in all possibilities" line BECAUSE IT'S OUR TIMELINE TOO! THEY EXISTED!

Please take a moment and let me introduce you to: Giacomo Leopardi and Antonio Ranieri's partnership.

Leopardi was an italian poet, author, philosopher and philologist. He is an important figure in Romantic literature (albeit, he did criticize the Romantic worldviews).

All throughout his life he suffered from a debilitating chronic illness (juvanile ankylosing spondylitis) that had him suffer horrendously from a young age, until it eventually took his life in 1837, when he was 39 years old.

He dedicated most of his life to studies, translating old tomes, writing poems and treaties diverting on humanity's degeneration from our glorious past to our suffering present. He exhorted modern folks to take action against the unjust present, aiming to a revolution of our pitiful condition.

In 1827 Leopardi meets Antonio Ranieri a young man that is described (verbatim) as a "very young and handsome in person and spirit".

Ranieri had been exiled from his city during his youth, because of his excessively liberal views in regards to politics.

The two become very close friends, but it's in 1830 that their "partnership" (literally, not making this up, Ranieri himself wrote a book about it if you care to check it out "Seven years of partnership with Giacomo Leopardi") starts. They move together from Firenze to Naples and Ranieri attends to Leopardi's every wish (noted that this man was a fanatic for sweets) paying with money from his own pocket.

Now, friendship at the time was different than what it is now, and they might’ve been very close friends, yes. But I'll give you some words from their letters and what Ranieri wrote down in his book and leave it to your judgment.

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Ranieri, Naples, 1833:

"I- left my own bed- used to sleep in a room that was not mine (scandalous at the time) to sleep by his side"

Leopardi, Florence, 1832-33, from when they got separated because Ranieri needed to tend to some family issues:

"My Ranieri, you will never abandon my side, nor will your love for me grow colder. I don't wish for you to sacrifice yourself for me. In fact, before anything else, I strongly wish for you to take care of yourself first: whatever you choose to do, you will do it so because we live for one another, or I know that I do for you; my last and only hope. Farewell, my soul. I keep you close to my heart, which in both possible and impossible occurrences, will forever be yours"

Leopardi, Florence, 1832-33, on someone making a joke out of Ranieri for staying by Leopardi's side:

" [...] Oh, my Ranieri! When will I get you back? I won't stop trambling until I'll recover this immeasurable love, until I know it's true. Farewell, my soul, with all my spirit's strength. Don't get bored of loving me"

And more:

"Ranieri of mine, I need not say that in every way you wish, I will be there with you (...). My resolution has been so for a great time now: that I will never be parted from you. Farewell"

In 1833, Ranieri sends a letter where he says he intends to set off to get Leopardi and go live together in Naples, to which Leopardi answers:

"My Ranieri, will this [letter] reach you in Naples still? I must warn you, I cannot live without you no longer, I'm overtaken by a morbid impatience to see you again, and that I am sure that if you will be late, I will die from the malencholy of not having you still. Farewell, Farewell"

Ranieri, on the landlady that took them in in Naples:

"She revealed this: that I had introduced a consumptive in the house: that, loving him so much as to stay up at night by his side, there could be no reason I could not do that as well in mine own house"

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So now, take it as you will- because maybe I am way too much of a nerd about this stuff- but I can't read ANYTHING Leopardi and Ranieri related without seeing Viktor and Jayce. I will gladely add more in the future.

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Addition! If you want to watch/read on them (but mostly Leopardi, which is a catch) I STRONGLY advice you:

Leopardi. Il poeta dell'infinito - I don't personally love it but if you want more on them, thats the place

Il giovane favoloso - AMAZING movie

Canti - by Leopardi, it is a collection of poems he wrote and I think it is absolutely useful to understand his marvelous mind and character

Sette anni di Sodalizio con Giacomo Leopardi - the one I mentioned before, written by Ranieri on his time with Leopardi

[a-town-wolf]

"Napoli 1 luglio 1837

Mia cara Fanny

La specie di dolore ch’io sento non fu mai sentita da nessun uomo, perchè mai non fu e mai più non sarà fra gli uomini un’amicizia uguale a quella che mi stringeva al mio adorato Leopardi. [...] com’è possibile di non credere al male in questo infausto pianeta, se Iddio, o il caso, o il fato, o qualunque sia questo potere cieco e tirannico che ci governa, ha potuto consentire che si desse al mondo un amore, una necessità simile a quella che era fra Leopardi e me, e che uno di noi fosse condannato a sopravvivere all’altro! [...]

Egli mi spirò fra le braccia [...] non credendo, insino all’ultimo istante, di dover passare, finchè un secondo prima non mi disse: Addio, Totonno, non veggo più luce. Io gli accompagnai il polso che salì lentamente, finchè fu spento, gli collai le mie labbra sulle sue, che già fredde non risposero più a’ miei baci, e così mi persuasi che non era più."

RAI MI RACCOMANDO A CIÒ CHE FAI RAI

NON MI TRADIRE. NON. MI. TRADIRE.

[greeneyed-thestral]

they're the same picture

[httpsastral]

Not to be that kind of person ma Leopardi e Ranieri nella serie rai sono molto Jayvik coded

[pigeonrobespierre]

eh mannaggia

[fritz-on-a-blitz]

Peak Italian television be like:

Sto volando alto signore e signori

[rosstrytobe]

HOW ARE WE FEELING THAT RAI 1 DECIDE THAT GIACOMO AND RANIERI ARE NOT JUST ROOMATES ANYMORE?

WE FUCKING WON

[thelightattheendofthistunnel]

questa seconda parte dell'episodio davvero troppo troppo troppissimo incentrata su fanny e su ranieri e fanny

[valentina-lauricella]

[yolothh]

Nobody cares about my Leopardi yapping anymore, but I'm shakinggg.

A while ago, I translated those letters that Leopardi (aka. Viktor) wrote to Ranieri (= Jayce).

At the time, I was still reading the first half of the songs he wrote, but now I came to a halt reading one he composed around 1832 (so when the both of them were steady together in Florence, ca.).

In many, many of the letters, Leopardi was constantly- and almost obsessively- saying "Farewell". I found it a bit odd at the time, but now it makes so much sense!

I'm reading "Consalvo", a pretty lengthy composition that critique places in the "Aspasia Cycle" (a group of compositions dedicated to Fanny, the girl Ranieri writes to when Leopardi died, I put it as a plus after the main post about him).

Anyways, one of the topoi that permeates the song is the horror that comes after hearing a loved one, or even a stranger, say "Farewell, see you never." It makes humans aware of their frailty, and it makes even the heart of those who don't love us ache a little.

In his Zibaldone (a diary to him, if you will) he especially highlights how he would fear to discover someone he even barely knew passed, and knowing that he could not make better use of their last meeting, he suffered.

Now, that note is from 1821, but it is crazy to see just How many times he said his Farewells to Ranieri. He really wanted to be sure that if his body was to fail him before he could see him again, then he'd at least given him a proper goodbye, just like Consalvo did to Elvira!

AND I'M THINKING ABOUT HOW THAT "GOODBYE, JAYCE" SCENE SEEMS SO MUCH MORE CHARGED NOW THAT I'M LINKING ALL THIS INFO TOGETHER, SPARE MEE

[a-town-wolf]

comunque non vorrei dire ma Giacomo Leopardi era un bi loser boy ante litteram E LO AMO PROPRIO PER QUESTO (Antonio Ranieri palesemente il suo canon event (cotta per un ragazzo etero))

[greeneyed-thestral]

Heartstopper 1x08 | Leopardi 1x02

[andre-ee-aa]

PLS IM BEGGING IS THERE ANYONE WHO COULD WRITE SOMETHING ABOUT THEM???

I need to read something that can cure my broken heart

[mike-ro-cosmo]

Purtroppo ho una relazione tossica con la Rai basata sulla dipendenza da gay omofobi, quindi vi pongo in sacrificio un Leopardi x Ranieri. Rimango disponibile per supporto morale 💁‍♂️

[alla-luna]

Lo so che è cringe ma io ho bisogno di fanfiction su questi due. Invoco tutte le persone di talento per riempire la sezione di ao3, grazie.