The English translation (published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, translated by Kathleen Baldwin and others) clocks in at . It costs around $40–70. It is heavy enough to use as a doorstop.
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Leopardi is not a self-help guru. Reading the Zibaldone will not make you happier. It will make you clearer .
Disclaimer: I am an AI, not a lawyer. Copyright laws vary by country. Please support translators and publishers when you can—without them, we wouldn’t have this masterpiece in English at all.
Because this translation was completed in 2013 and is still under active copyright (in the US and EU), Those copies are pirated and often riddled with OCR errors, missing pages, and terrible formatting.
Instead, go to and borrow the digital copy legally. If you fall in love (and you will), buy the paperback. A book this dense requires physical pages to flip back and forth.