The Disease of the Italian Poet Giacomo Leopardi
Erik Pietro Sganzerla — Michele Augusto Riva : « The Disease of the Italian Poet Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837): A Case of Juvenile Ankylosing Spondylitis in the 19th Century? » [ Journal of Clinical Rheumatology , Volume 23, Number 4, June 2017 • DOI: 10.1097/RHU.0000000000000534 ] Giacomo Leopardi © (Recanati, 29 June 1798 – Napoli, 14 June 1837) ABSTRACT Some authors sustained that the pessimistic thought of the Italian writer and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi ( 1798 - 1837 ) may be attributed to his unhappy life, characterized by several health problems . His philosophical theories appear as the result of depressive and melancholic state , related to his precarious health conditions, so limiting their intrinsic values. Several authors formulated various hypotheses on the diseases that Leopardi suffered from and postulated different theories on the cause of his early death. This article assumed that Leopardi may have been affected by juv...