Ours is an age of exposure and self-exposure. Only what happens in public, we tend to believe, is really real; and it becomes more real the more people see it happen. This way of thinking is, among ...

Heroes get remembered, but legends never die. “The Sandlot” star Chauncey Leopardi, 44, has opened up about why he slowly stepped back from Hollywood following a slew of successful roles in the 90s ...

Chauncey Leopardi is reminiscing about one summer "that can live forever" The actor starred as Michael "Squints" Palledorous in the 1993 film, The Sandlot In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE, he ...

"That’s just incredible," Leopardi told TODAY contributor Donna Farizan in an interview for a PopStart Plus special on nostalgic summer movies on TODAY All Day. "You know, like, here we are, 30 years ...

So here it is, the Zibaldone, one of the greatest blogs of the nineteenth century, of any century, for that matter — and what matter it is! 2,584 pages! Translated, edited, printed, bound, shipped, ...

Imagine yourself a genius trapped in a small Italian town under the thumb of two dictatorial parents: a mother who is such a fanatical Catholic that she thinks the best fate for a child is an early ...

In one of his notebooks from 1820, Giacomo Leopardi, the greatest Italian poet of the 19th century, wrote that “it is not enough to understand a true proposition; one must also feel the truth of it.” ...

Perhaps it's only fitting that Chauncey Leopardi is still talking about The Sandlot all these years later. After all, the actor tells PEOPLE in a recent exclusive interview, the movie is somewhat ...

Schopenhauer referred to him as his "spiritual brother"; Italians consider him one of their greatest ever intellects, and his thoughts have been said to "go beyond those of every other European man of ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Zibaldone: The Notebooks of Leopardi, by Giacomo Leopardi, edited by Michael Caesar and Franco D’Intino, Penguin ...