Auto da fé: Cronache in due tempi (Saggi di letteratura)

by Eugenio Montale

Italian

Genres: History

355 pages, Perfect Paperback

First published January 1, 1966

About the author

Eugenio Montale was born on October 12, 1896 in Genoa, Italy. He was the youngest son of Domenico Montale and Giuseppina (Ricci) Montale. They were brought up in a business atmosphere, as their father was a trader in chemicals. Ill health cut short his formal education and he was therefore a self-taught man free from conditioning except that of his own will and person. He spent his summers at the family villa in a village. This small village was near the Ligurian Riviera, an area which has had a profound influence on his poetry and other works. Originally Montale aspired to be an opera singer and trained under the famous baritone Ernesto Sivori. Surprisingly he changed his profession and went on to become a poet who can be considered the greatest of the twentieth century’s Italian poets and one who won the prestigious Nobel Prize in Literature in 1975 "for his distinctive poetry which, with great artistic sensitivity, has interpreted human values under the sign of an outlook on life with no illusions."

Reviews

[Irene · Rating 4 out of 5]

Montale mi ha tenuto compagnia per quasi tre mesi mentre preparavo un esame di letteratura.
"Auto da fè", una raccolta di saggi scritti dal Montale giornalista, è un libro complicato, difficile da leggere, che ha bisogno di attenzione e concentrazione.
È stato pubblicato nel 1966, eppure, nonostante i suoi 56 anni, è ancora ricco di riflessioni attualissime. Peccato che lo si conosca così poco.