Enlightenment was one of the ideas this Italian philosopher, poet, essayist, zoo keeper and philologist - who wrote the banned poem L'infinito while living in a secluded town in the conservative Papal States.
"L'infinito" (] ; English: The Infinite ) is a poem written by Giacomo Leopardi probably in the autumn of 1819. 
Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi (] ; 29 June 1798  14 June 1837) was an Italian philosopher, poet, essayist, and philologist. 
 Although he lived in a secluded town in the conservative Papal States, he came in touch with the main ideas of the Enlightenment, and through his own literary evolution, created a remarkable and renowned poetic work, related to the Romantic era. 
