Eugenio Montale

Eugenio Montale (died 1981) was born in Genoa on 12 October 1896, the youngest of the six children of a merchant. He took singing lessons with the baritone Ernesto Sivori and was largely self-taught. An infantry officer during the Great War, he directed the Gabinetto Vieusseux in Florence from 1929, from which he was dismissed in 1938 by the Fascist regime. He joined the Corriere della Sera in 1948, was appointed senator for life in 1967 and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1975. He died in Milan on 12 September 1981.

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