Giacomo Leopardi is considered the greatest italian poet of the nineteenth century and one of the most important figures in the literature of the world as well as one of the principals of literary romanticism. He loved to be corrosive until becoming perfidious. We can find an example of that in the Palinody to Marquis Gino Capponi “O hail, thous salutary sign, first beam of light of this our wondrous, rising age!” when he intended to be satirical and makes fun of liberal trends of having long beards making thus meaning that the values of culture were intended by intellectuals of that time as directly proportionals to the length of beards and mustache.
