- Unknown:
- Henry Reed
- Unknown:
- Giacomo Leopardi
- Unknown:
- Marius Coring
- Unknown:
- Sonia Dresdel
- Unknown:
- Stephen Murray
- Unknown:
- Carleton Hobbs
- Unknown:
- Wilfred Babbage
- Unknown:
- Noel Howlett.
- Unknown:
- Harold Kasket
- Unknown:
- Arthur Lawrence
- Unknown:
- Preston Lockwood
- Produced By:
- Douglas Cleverdon
- Leopardi, as a boy:
- Philip Meredith
- Leopardi as a man:
- Marius Goring,
- Count Monaldo Leopardi, his father .:
- Carleton Hobbs
- Countess Adelaide, his mother:
- Sonia Dresdel
- Carlo, his brother, as a boy:
- Nicholas Charles
- Carlo as a young man:
- Julian ,glover
- Paolina his sister:
- Janette Richer
- His younger brothers: Luigi:
- Peter Craze
- His younger brothers: Pierfrancesco:
- Marjorie Westbury
- Pietro Giordani:
- Stephen Murray
- Antonio Ranieri:
- Denis Goacher
- Lina Ranieri:
- Jill Balcon
- Fanny Targioni:
- Denise Bryer
- Fanny's children:
- Sulwen Morgan
- Fanny's children:
- Cherie Lunghi
- Maddalena Pelzet:
- Margaretta Scott
- Rosa Padovani:
- Nancy Nevinson
- Countess Malvezzi:
- Betty Huntley-Wright
- Botti:
- Robert Eddison
- Biffi:
- Norman Shelley
- Maria:
- Miriam Margolyes
