Antonia Pozzi
Antonia Pozzi was born in Milan on 13 February, 1912, and died in the same city on 3 December, 1938, when she was only 26. Pozzi began writing poetry when she was very young and her brief but intense life was marked by a great passion for mountains and photography, as well as her other interests. Antonia Pozzi’s poetry remained little known for many years, until it was rediscovered by Eugenio Montale, who helped a wider audience to discover what her friend, the philosopher Dino Formaggio, described as “one of the most painful, pure and luminously illuminating musical voices of Italian lyrical poetry in this century”.