"Stato che sia, dentro covile o cuna, È funesto a chi nasce il dì natale."
— Giacomo Leopardi

January 1, 1970

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Canto notturno di un pastore errante dell'Asia (Night song of a nomadic shepherd in Asia) (1829-1830). Translation by Eamon Grennan, Leopardi: Selected Poems [Princeton University Press, 1997, ], p. 62