| Sumario: | This year marks the bicentenary of the writing of Giacomo Leopardi’s famous composition The Infinite. It is one of the five idyls born from the emotion experienced by the poet of feeling alone with himself in a state of isolated recollection. In this idyll Leopardi imagines the expanse of space without end and then the arrival of the voice of the wind, which makes him perceive the idea of the passage of time. Therefore, human life and its pain will also disappear. And from this thought of oblivion and death a certain sweetness is born: «And it is sweet to shipwreck in such a sea». This article presents the interpretations of The Infinite given by some critics and, in particular, by Carlo Bo and Divo Barsotti.
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