Montale, Debussy, and ModernismIntegrating the study of both music and art into an exploration of the early poetry of Eugenio Montale (1896 1982), this book situates Italy's premier poet of the twentieth century within the Modernist movement. Gian Paolo Biasin finds in Montale's poetry broad resonances, reverberations, and comparisons that involve it in the European culture of its time and that invite the reading of poetry, music, and painting as texts in a cultural system. This