Elio Germano as Giacomo Leopardi

Michele Riondino as Antonio Ranieri

Massimo Popolizio as Monaldo Leopardi

Anna Mouglalis as Fanny Targioni-Tozzetti

Valerio Binasco as Pietro Giordani

Paolo Graziosi as Carlo Antici

Iaia Forte as Mrs. Rosa

Sandro Lombardi as Father Vincenzo

Raffaella Giordano as Adelaide Antici Leopardi

Edoardo Natoli as Carlo Leopardi

Giovanni Ludeno as Pasquale Ignarra

Federica De Cola as Paolina Ranieri

Giorgia Salari as Maddalena 'Lenina' Pelzet

Gloria Ghergo as Teresa Fattorini / 'Silvia'

Isabella Ragonese as Paolina Leopardi

Vanni Leopardi as cocchiere

Franco Javarone as Ginardo

Sergio Albelli as Signor Lenzoni

Eugenio Allegri as Gian Pietro Viesseux

Fernando Beccaceci as Maggiordomo

Salvatore Cantalupo as

Renato Carpentieri as

Gino De Luca as Don Isidoro

Pio del Prete as gendarme

Denis Fasolo as Niccolò Tommaseo

Federico Fazioli as Filippo Solari

Tiberio Fiori as Maniscalco

Veronica Lazăr as Marianna Mattei Antici

Valter Malosti as Ferdinando Pelzet

Nello Mascia as Dottor Mannella

Enzo Moscato as Sacerdote

Danilo Nigrelli as Giovanni Battista Niccolini

Kostas Papanastasiou as Margasis

Enzo Salomone as Monsignor Cupis

Mattia Sbragia as Barone De Corbis

Luciana Zazzera as Ostessa

Angela Di Matteo as Prostituta 1

Roberto Di Pietro as Bottegaio

Carlo Falciani as Editore

Jurij Ferrini as

Demi Licata as prostituta 2

Bruna Rossi as