Eugenio Montale - Works

Works

Each year links to its corresponding " in literature" or " in poetry" article:

• 1925: Ossi di seppia ("Cuttlefish Bones"), first edition; second edition, 1928, with six new poems and an introduction by Alfredo Gargiulo; third edition, 1931, Lanciano: Carabba
• 1932: La casa dei doganieri e altre poesie, a chapbook of five poems published in association with the award of the Premio del Antico Fattore to Montale; Florence: Vallecchi
• 1939: Le occasioni ("The Occasions"), Turin: Einaudi
• 1943: Finisterre, a chapbook of poetry, smuggled into Switzerland by Gianfranco Contini; Lugano: the Collana di Lugano (June 24); second edition, 1945, Florence: Barbèra
• 1948: Quaderno di traduzioni, translations, Milan: Edizioni della Meridiana
• 1948: La fiera letteraria poetry criticism
• 1956: La bufera e altro ("The Storm and Other Things"), a first edition of 1,000 copies, Venice: Neri Pozza; second, larger edition published in 1957, Milan: Arnaldo Mondadore Editore
• 1956: Farfalla di Dinard, stories, a private edition
• 1962: Satura, poetry, published in a private edition, Verona: Oficina Bodoni
• 1962: Accordi e pastelli ("Agreements and Pastels"), Milan: Scheiwiller (May)
• 1966: Il colpevole
• 1966: Auto da fé: Cronache in due tempi, cultural criticism, Milan: Il Saggiatore
• 1966: Xenia, poems in memory of Mosca, first published in a private edition of 50
• 1969: Fuori di casa, collected travel writing
• 1971: Satura (1962–1970) (January)
• 1971: La poesia non esiste, prose; Milan: Scheiwiller (February)
• 1973: Diario del '71 e del '72, Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore (a private edition of 100 copies was published in 1971)
• 1973: Trentadue variazioni, an edition of 250 copies, Milan: Giorgio Lucini
• 1977: Quaderno di quattro anni, Milan: Mondadori
• 1977: Tutte le poesie, Milan: Mondadori
• 1980: L'opera in versi, the Bettarini-Contini edition; published in 1981 as Altri verse e poesie disperse, publisher: Mondadori

Translated in Montale's lifetime

• 1966: Ossi di seppia, Le ocassioni, and La bufera e altro, translated by Patrice Angelini into French; Paris: Gallimard
• 1978: The Storm & Other Poems, translated by Charles Wright into English (Oberlin College Press), ISBN 0-932440-01-0

Posthumous

• 1981: Prime alla Scala, music criticism, edited by Gianfranca Lavezzi; Milan: Mondadori
• 1981: Lettere a Quasimodo, edited by Sebastiano Grasso; publisher: Bompiani
• 1983: Quaderno genovese, edited by Laura Barile; a journal from 1917, first published this year; Milan: Mondadori
• 1991: Tutte le poesie, edited by Giorgio Zampa. Jonathan Galassi calls this book the "most comprehensive edition of Montale's poems".
• 1996: Diario postumo: 66 poesie e altre, edited by Annalisa Cima; Milan: Mondadori
• 1996: Il secondo mestiere: Arte, musica, società and Il secondo mestierre: Prose 1929-1979, a two-volume edition including all of Montale's published writings; edited by Giorgio Zampa; Milan: Mondadori
• 1999: Collected Poems, trans. Jonathan Galassi (Carcanet) (Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize)
• 2004: Selected Poems, trans. Jonathan Galassi, Charles Wright, & David Young (Oberlin College Press), ISBN 0-932440-98-3