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Eugenio Montale

1896 - 1981

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Eugenio Montale (Italian: [euˈdʒɛːnjo monˈtaːle]; 12 October 1896 – 12 September 1981) was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, and recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eugenio Montale has received more than 271,483 page views. His biography is available in 82 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 81 in 2019). Eugenio Montale is the 281st most popular writer (up from 939th in 2019), the 364th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,054th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Italian Writer.

Eugenio Montale was a twentieth-century Italian poet. He is most famous for his use of terza rima in his poetry.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Eugenio Montale ranks 281 out of 5,755Before him are C. S. Lewis, Paul Valéry, Antonin Artaud, Marcus Terentius Varro, Shota Rustaveli, and Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau. After him are Primo Levi, Amos Oz, Tomas Tranströmer, Robert Musil, Archilochus, and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Eugenio Montale ranks 12Before him are André Breton, Imre Nagy, Tristan Tzara, Roman Jakobson, Konstantin Rokossovsky, and Antonin Artaud. After him are Trygve Lie, Klement Gottwald, Andrei Zhdanov, Paula Hitler, Gerty Cori, and Oswald Mosley. Among people deceased in 1981, Eugenio Montale ranks 6Before him are Bob Marley, Anwar Sadat, Jacques Lacan, Albert Speer, and Moshe Dayan. After him are Natalie Wood, William Wyler, Max Euwe, Soong Ching-ling, Frederica of Hanover, and Hans Adolf Krebs.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Eugenio Montale ranks 364 out of 4,668Before him are Pope Agatho (574), Yves Montand (1921), Marcus Terentius Varro (-116), Antonio Canova (1757), Mario Draghi (1947), and Andrea Bocelli (1958). After him are Pope Gregory VI (1000), Primo Levi (1919), Pope Innocent IV (1195), Simone Martini (1284), Renzo Piano (1937), and Antonio da Correggio (1489).

Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Eugenio Montale ranks 24Before him are Torquato Tasso (1544), Sallust (-86), Christine de Pizan (1365), Dario Fo (1926), Carlo Goldoni (1707), and Marcus Terentius Varro (-116). After him are Primo Levi (1919), Alberto Moravia (1907), Lorenzo Valla (1407), Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863), Ludovico Ariosto (1474), and Edmondo De Amicis (1846).