‘Il topo, le piante, i vermi. Giacomo Leopardi, ed Erasmus e Charles Darwin’ by Angioy, A

“…From an extensive study of Leopardi’s work, one figure clearly emerges: Erasmus Darwin, Charles’s grandfather. Erasmus was a physician, a poet, a free thinker and materialist, a man who dared to write about sexuality and, following in the footsteps of the Roman poet Lucretius, about the nature of things. …”