Eugenio Montale was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, and recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature.
12 Facts About Eugenio Montale
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Eugenio Montale's family were chemical products traders.
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Eugenio Montale wrote a foreword to Dante's "The Divine Comedy", in which he mentions the credibility of Dante, and his insight and unbiased imagination.
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Eugenio Montale moved to Florence in 1927 to work as editor for the publisher Bemporad.
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In 1929 Eugenio Montale was asked to be chairman of the Gabinetto Vieusseux Library, a post from which he was expelled in 1938 by the fascist government.
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Eugenio Montale collaborated with the magazine Solaria, and frequented the literary cafe Le Giubbe Rosse on the Piazza Vittoria.
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Eugenio Montale wrote for almost all the important literary magazines of the time.
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Eliot, who shared Eugenio Montale's admiration for Dante, was an important influence on his poetry at this time; in fact, the new poems of Eliot were shown to Eugenio Montale by Mario Praz, then teaching in Manchester.
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In 1948, for Eliot's sixtieth birthday, Eugenio Montale contributed a celebratory essay entitled "Eliot and Ourselves" to a collection published to mark the occasion.
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La bufera e altro was published in 1956 and marks the end of Eugenio Montale's most acclaimed poetry.
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Eugenio Montale wrote a series of poignant poems about Clizia shortly before his death.
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Eugenio Montale had received honorary degrees from the Universities of Milan, Cambridge, Rome, and had been named Senator-for-Life in the Italian Senate.