This 1979 edition of Antonio Ranieri’s work offers a reprint of his personal account of the final seven years spent alongside Giacomo Leopardi. Combining memoir and biographical elements, the text provides direct testimony on the poet’s private life, literary activities, and intellectual relationships. It serves both as a narrative of friendship and a historical document of 19th-century Italian literature. Suitable for students and scholars of biographical studies, literary history, and Romanticism, the volume contributes to a deeper understanding of Leopardi’s final creative period.