La disimulación (del sentimiento) en las Operette morali

Leopardi identifies dissimulation as a compositional, and an aesthetic principle. This is
characterised as a philosophical and structural dissimulation, as well as one of mimesis. This
approach involves a process of shuffling cards, avoiding conclusions, opening up possible worlds
and eluding certainties and apparent logic. The Operette morali are, in fact, designed and composed
under the banner of destabilisation with respect to expectation. Furthermore, the declared
renunciation of dissimulation of existential unhappiness coincides in many cases with the
dissimulation of sentiment, particularly love and friendship, which lends the text a surprising
modernity. The work is entirely set in a disorienting, at times dystopian perspective.