As a skeptical thinker, Leopardi is perfectly aware of the necessary contingency and groundlessness of all things. Yet it is precisely this awareness that implies the insistent questioning of a founding ground with which his work is imbued. This can be seen in the genetic-ancestral metaphors at the core of his thinking about the ‚infinite‘ thus considered as the ‚daughter of our imagination‘. Strikingly, this filiation leads to another family resemblance, namely the implicit twinship of poetry and philosophy, both of which ideally merge in Leopardi’s conception of a ‚genuinely poetic thought‘. In turn, the Leopardian idea of a particular poetic thought originates in his own early project of a ‚new nameless poetry‘, which is itself in search for its own ‚origin‘: the ‚absolute ground of nothingness‘, generating it in the first place and constantly accompanying it. Like this ‚inexistent‘, and thus truly ‚infinite non-ground‘, or ‚background‘, the ‚genealogy‘ of such a ‚nameless poetr‘y is a paradox yet to be elucidated.