In that poem by this author, a ripe apple falls from a tree and crushes an ant's nest.
In a work by this author, a gnome sent by Beelzebub to keep tabs on mankind is informed by a goblin that they've all died. This author describes a meteorological event that brings the vegetable seller shouting again in the street, and a hen singing again in the road. A poem by this author describes "fields / strewn with sterile ashes, blanketed / by hardened lava / that echoes to a wanderer's steps." In that poem by this author, a ripe apple falls from a tree and crushes an ant's nest. He declared: "When the truth dawned / you fell away, poor thing, and from afar / pointed out cold death / and a naked grave," addressing the daughter of one of his (*) servants, who died of tuberculosis. The "Dialogue between Nature and an Icelander" appears his Moral Essays. This author of "The Calm after the Storm" and "The Broom" wrote a poem that begins "This lonely hill was always dear to me." For 10 points, "To Silvia" and "The Infinite" appear in the Canti of what 19th-century Italian poet?
In a work by this author, a gnome sent by Beelzebub to keep tabs on mankind is informed by a goblin that they've all died.
Giacomo (Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro) Leopardi