In the interwar period Italy takes place in secrecy: short descriptive and reflective poems, in this, sober language, the conclusion can be glimpsed or suggested. Along with the desire of essentiality typically avant-garde, the aesthetic is in a rejection of the bombastic rhetoric of Italian Fascism.
its first crop is Umberto Saba (1883-1971) with his lyrical subjective, simple, humorous and musical (Song, 1921), but the style became famous with Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970 ) prototype condensation brevity in poems that are as fleeting flashes (Joy of castaways, 1919).
Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-1968) passes airtightness descriptive of its native Sicily (And night falls suddenly, 1942) to compromise.
Eugenio Montale (1896-1981) , poet, journalist and music critic Italian born in Genoa in 1896, perhaps the greatest poet of all walks her look, a sober romance, the life and man, with suppressed emotion , irony, and musicality.
interrupted high school to study singing, and later served as an infantry officer in the First World War. When he decided to devote himself to poetry and was an intellectual of vast culture that alternated a taste for reading of the great novelists of the nineteenth century, with painting and music.
anti-fascist demonstrations in 1939 earned him his suspension by the government as cabinet director Vieusseux. He received
Feltrinelli Prize, the title of Doctor Honoris Causa the Universities of Milan, Rome, Cambridge and Basel , the title of senator for life in 1966 and Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975.
"Cuttlefish Bones" in 1925, "Chances" in 1939, "The wind and other" in 1956, "The Butterfly cafe on the square" in 1956, "Satura" in 1971, "Thirty-two variations" in 1973 and "Altri version" in 1981, are part of their valuable work.
died in Milan in September 1981
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