Passwords: Jonathan Galassi on Eugenio Montale

Eugenio Montale (1896-1981) won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature. He carried the tradition of Italian lyric poetry into the twentieth century with unrivaled power and brilliance. Jonathan Galassi, the translator of Eugenio Montale: Collected Poems 1920- 1954, reads and discusses Montale’s poems. Readings in Italian by Anthony Viscusi