“In fact the problem Leopardi is facing is speculative and metaphysical, a problem in the history of philosophy from Parmenides to Descartes and Kant: the relationship between the idea of infinity as absolute space and absolute time, and our empirical knowledge of space and time.”
Italo Calvino
Six Memos for the Next Millennium: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, 1985-86
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