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Montale Eugenio
(1896–1981)

Italian poet, critic, and translator. After working as an editor, Montale became chief librarian of the Gabinetto Vieusseux in Florence. His complex poetry expresses the tensions and disorders of 20th-century European culture, especially of Italian social and political life under fascism. Montale’s pessimistic philosophy stressed that only the... More...

Italy, 1996, Eugenio Montale and Hoopoe

Paraguay, 1977, Medal of Nobel prize of Literature