Eugenio Montale

Eugenio Montale (1896-1981) was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor, and translator, born in Genoa and best known for his hermetic poetry expressing disillusionment and the "male di vivere." His major works include Ossi di seppia (1925), Le occasioni (1939), and La bufera e altro (1956), and he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1975 for his distinctive poetry that interprets human values without illusions.