"Giacomo Leopardi's "Le operette morali" are philosophical prose, but also dialogues, mordacious tales, sarcastic and ironic sketches that reveal the courage to challenge the dominant ideas of his own time by bringing out a theatrical and storytelling dimension that has only in recent years come into sharper focus. The lecture by writer and lecturer Marco Balzano aims to go over some of the most significant prose in the work, putting it in dialogue with the poems, diary and letters.