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15-687: Montale may refer to: Eugenio Montale (1896–1981), Italian poet Montale (San Marino) , one of the Three Towers of San Marino Montale, Tuscany , municipality in the Province of Pistoia in the Italian region Tuscany Montale Rangone , village in Castelnuovo Rangone 22379 Montale , minor planet See also [ edit ] Mondale (disambiguation) Topics referred to by

30-516: A day, he became a central figure among a group of writers there, including Carlo Emilio Gadda , Arturo Loria and Elio Vittorini (all founders of the magazine). He wrote for almost all the important literary magazines of the time. Though hindered by financial problems and the literary and social conformism imposed by the authorities, in Florence, Montale published his finest anthology, Le occasioni ("Occasions", 1939). From 1933 to 1938 he had

45-469: A journal of poetry translation, plus several books of prose translations, two books of literary criticism, and one of fantasy prose. Alongside his imaginative work he was a constant contributor to Italy's most important newspaper, the Corriere della Sera , for which he wrote a huge number of articles on literature, music, and art. He also wrote a foreword to Dante's "The Divine Comedy", in which he mentions

60-510: A love relationship with Irma Brandeis , a Jewish-American scholar of Dante who occasionally visited Italy for short periods. After falling in love with Brandeis, Montale represented her as a mediatrix figure like Dante's Beatrice . Le occasioni contains numerous allusions to Brandeis, here called Clizia (a senhal ). Franco Fortini judged Montale's Ossi di seppia and Le occasioni the high-water mark of 20th century Italian poetry . T.S. Eliot , who shared Montale's admiration for Dante,

75-468: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Eugenio Montale Eugenio Montale ( Italian: [euˈdʒɛːnjo monˈtaːle] ; 12 October 1896 – 12 September 1981) was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature and one of the finest literary figures of the 20th century. Montale

90-537: Is wry and ironic, musing on the critical reaction to his earlier work and on the constantly changing world around him. Satura contains a poignant elegy to his wife Drusilla Tanzi . He also wrote a series of poignant poems about Clizia shortly before his death. Montale's fame at that point had extended throughout the world. He had received honorary degrees from the Universities of Milan (1961), Cambridge (1967), Rome (1974), and had been named Senator-for-Life in

105-570: The Gabinetto Vieusseux Library, a post from which he was expelled in 1938 by the fascist government. By this time Montale's poetry was a reaction against the literary style of the fascist regime. He collaborated with the magazine Solaria , and (starting in 1927) frequented the literary café Le Giubbe Rosse ("Red Jackets") on the Piazza Vittoria (now Piazza della Repubblica). Visiting the café often several times

120-811: The Italian Senate. In 1973 he was awarded the Golden Wreath of the Struga Poetry Evenings in Struga , SR Macedonia . In 1975 he 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

135-668: The credibility of Dante, and his insight and unbiased imagination. In 1925 he was a signatory to the Manifesto of the Anti-Fascist Intellectuals . Montale's own politics inclined toward the liberalism of Piero Gobetti and Benedetto Croce . He contributed to Gobetti's literary magazine Il Baretti . Montale's work, especially his first poetry collection Ossi di seppia ("Cuttlefish Bones"), which appeared in 1925, shows him as an antifascist who felt detached from contemporary life and found solace and refuge in

150-502: The occasion. From 1948 to his death, Montale lived in Milan. After the war, he was a member of the liberal Partito d'Azione . As a contributor to the Corriere della Sera he was music editor and also reported from abroad, including Israel, where he went as a reporter to follow Pope Paul VI 's visit there. His works as a journalist are collected in Fuori di casa ("Out of Home", 1969). La bufera e altro ("The Storm and Other Things")

165-411: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Montale . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Montale&oldid=1145317093 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

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180-470: The solitude of nature. Montale moved to Florence in 1927 to work as an editor for the publisher Bemporad . Florence was the cradle of Italian poetry of that age, with works like the Canti orfici by Dino Campana (1914) and the first lyrics by Ungaretti for the review Lacerba . Other poets like Umberto Saba and Vincenzo Cardarelli had been highly praised. In 1929 Montale was asked to be chairman of

195-472: Was an important influence on his poetry at this time; in fact, the new poems of Eliot were shown to Montale by Mario Praz , then teaching in Manchester. The concept of the objective correlative used by Montale in his poetry, was probably influenced by T. S. Eliot. In 1948, for Eliot's sixtieth birthday, Montale contributed a celebratory essay entitled "Eliot and Ourselves" to a collection published to mark

210-601: Was born in Genoa . His family were chemical products traders (his father supplied Italo Svevo 's firm). Montale was the youngest of six sons. Montale was largely self-taught. Growing up, his imagination was caught by several writers, including Dante Alighieri , and by the study of foreign languages (especially English), as well as the landscapes of the Levante ("Eastern") Liguria , where he spent holidays with his family. Montale wrote more than ten anthologies of short lyrics,

225-556: Was published in 1956 and marks the end of Montale's most acclaimed poetry. Here his figure Clizia is joined by La Volpe ("the Fox"), based on the young poet Maria Luisa Spaziani with whom Montale had an affair during the 1950s. However, this volume also features Clizia, treated in a variety of poems as a kind of bird-goddess who defies Hitler. These are some of his greatest poems. His later works are Xenia (1966), Satura (1971) and Diario del '71 e del '72 (1973). Montale's later poetry

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