Eugenio Montale [SEP] date of death
Eugenio Montale
Eugenio Montale (; 12 October 1896 – 12 September 1981) was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, and recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature..
Life and works.
Life and works Early years.
Montale was born in Genoa. His family were chemical products traders (his father supplied Italo Svevo's firm). The poet's niece, Bianca Montale, in her "Cronaca famigliare" ("Family Chronicle") of 1986 portrays the family's common characteristics as "
received the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Montale died in Milan in 1981.
In 1996, a work appeared called "Posthumous Diary" ("Diario postumo") that purported to have been 'compiled' by Montale before his death, with the help of the young poet Annalisa Cima; the critic Dante Isella thinks that this work is not authentic. Joseph Brodsky dedicated his essay "In the Shadow of Dante" to Eugenio Montale's lyric poetry.
List of works.
Each year links to its corresponding