Le prime cento pagine dello Zibaldone di pensieri di Giacomo Leopardi: studio critico per una datazione

Zibaldone di pensieri was born as a draft book, mainly of literary topics. The first hundred pages of the manuscript can be read as a developing text. What separates them from the rest of the pages is the absence of the systematic registration of the date. Starting from the state of the autographs, this contribution identifies a new path to establish the dating, by collecting and systematising different data, methods, and tools. A new and detailed analysis of the manuscript is essential to capture the internal processes and to highlight the composition methods. The present study focuses on the case of the first page of Zibaldone that, in its variety of time and thoughts, permits to focalise the different methodological approaches.