Sanguineti and Montale:: Travelling companions in the 1970s (Edoardo!Sanguineti, Eugenio!Montale)

This article considers parallels between Edoardo Sanguineti's collections of poems Reisebilder (1971) and Postkarten (1978) and Eugenio Montale's Satura (1971), notably their recording of the specifics of travel in a matter-of-fact, ironic, and quasi-diaristic style. While not suggesting any fundamental convergence between the two poets, the study none the less finds a widespread recurrence of images and scenarios which, combined with specific textual echoes, supports a hypothesis of influence. For all their differences in style, ideology, and timbre, Sanguineti draws on Montale's poetic persona and imagery in Satura for his own construction of a new literary model of the intellectual.