id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 4j03cz33n6v Matias Sur The Spiritualization of Human Beings: Leopardi's Tristano 2020 .txt text/plain 303 11 38 In Dialogo di Tristano e di un amico, the final dialogue of Giacomo Leopardi's second edition of the Operette morali (1834), the main character, Tristano, comments on how human beings in modernity value more the spirit over the body. Tristano's declaration formulates an important distinction found throughout Leopardi's works: human beings of antiquity were more concerned with the care of the physical body and human beings of modernity were more concerned with the care of the immaterial spirit. cache/4j03cz33n6v.txt txt/4j03cz33n6v.txt