Color lithograph / chalk paper; size: 33 x 23.6 cm; signed p.d.: Lebenstein; inscribed l.d.: 12/100.
Illustration for the bibliophilic edition of Eugenio Montale's poetry Cinquante ans de poesie, 1972, Eugenio Montale (October 12, 1896 in Genoa, died September 12, 1981 in Milan) - Italian essayist, literary critic, poet, politician, translator. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1975. In 1927 he moved from Genoa to Florence, where he joined the Hermetic literary movement, a poetry in which conscious vagueness of meaning was common, and nominal statements and ambiguity dominated the language. In 1938 he was dismissed from his position as director of the Gabinetto Vieusseux Library in Florence for his anti-fascist views. In 1948 he became literary critic of the Corriera della Sera newspaper. He has served in the Italian Senate since 1967. Montale's essays had a significant impact on the Italian intellectual community. He translated works by William Shakespeare, Pierre Corneille and T. S. Eliot, among others.
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