In "The Part about the Crimes", the fourth part of Roberto Bolaño's novel 2666, Canto notturno di un pastore errante dell'Asia is extensively quoted by a television psychic named Florita Almada who somewhat confuses it for an account of the early life of Benito Juárez.
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In the poem All'Italia, Leopardi laments the fallen at the Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC, fought between the Greeks under Leonidas and the Persians under Xerxes), and evokes the greatness of the past.
Gioacchino Rossini; Aleardo Aleardi; Giacomo Leopardi; Alessandro Manzoni; Michelangelo; the Exposition of Milan in 1872; Bernardo Celentano; Exposition of Antwerp in 1885; Cesare Maccari; Francesco Podesti; and Agli alunni delle scuole d'arte applicata all' industria e alcune poesie.
Giacomo Puccini | Giacomo Casanova | Giacomo Meyerbeer | Giacomo Manzù | Giacomo Balla | Giacomo Agostini | Giacomo Quarenghi | Giacomo Leopardi | Salvatore Di Giacomo | Laura San Giacomo | Giacomo Matteotti | Giacomo Leoni | Giacomo Manzoni | San Giacomo | Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi | Gian Giacomo Medici | Giacomo Losi | Giacomo Finetti | Giacomo Facco | Giacomo Bulgarelli | Giacomo Bove | Giacomo | Aldo, Giovanni & Giacomo | San Giacomo Filippo | Giuseppe Giacomo Gambino | Giacomo Vincenti | Giacomo Sannesio | Giacomo Rossi | Giacomo Raffaelli | Giacomo Pacchiarotti |
He has translated numerous authors and poets into French, including Goethe, Hölderlin, Mann, Mandelstam, Góngora, Leopardi, Musil, Rilke, Homer and Ungaretti.
In 1816, he began his legendary epistolary exchange with Giacomo Leopardi to whom he eventually paid a visit in 1818, accompanying him, during his first travels outside of the small village of Recanati, to Macerata.