Count Giacomo Leopardi, the greatest poet of the Italian nineteenth century and one of the greatest in the world, was born in 1798 in Recanati, then making part of the Papal State.

Leopardi's Recanati was for him like a prison, for years he wanted in vain to be able to leave the palace of the family in which he is ; he grew up and continued his studies, first with teachers priests as per tradition, then in a self-taught way. At 19 he was already a true philosopher, with his own theories, so soon Recanati's intellectual environment became too tight for him. Later, however, when he could experience Rome, Milan, Florence, Bologna and finally Naples, where he died at only 39 he had to face a disappointment: the world he met &ldquo ; outside” was not what he imagined.

Recanati for posthumously lovers of lyra and literature instead became a mandatory destination on pilgrimage to places & “poetic”. The vast panorama, which in clear time reaches the Adriatic Sea (only 10 km) and even beyond, up to the mountains beyond Adria is one of the views most beautiful in the Marche region. The landscape around Recanati is very suggestive not only for its beauty but also for how Recanati is located: a city balcony , on top of a hill, from where you feel like being on top of the world.

It is not surprising that Leopardi also recalled very often in his poems the corners of his city, and some of these were renamed by taking the tick of the lyric of the poet. So the “Tower of the Lonely Sparrow” inside the Cloister of Saint Augustine, which became a known place through the poem “The Lonely Sparrow”. On the top of Mount Tabor, on the Hill of Infinity stands today the World Center of Poetry, and the park around it could be the paradise on earth for poets.
Not only the places of inspiration but of the very life of Leopardi are worth visiting and all lovers of literature should go there! The native house of Leopardi, where the descendants of the family still live today can be visited, here is the Leopardian Library with its 20,000 volumes, the biggest attraction in the building.