Maria Luisa Spaziani

Maria Luisa Spaziani (born 1924) is an Italian poetess.

Spaziani and Eugenio Montale

In the 1950s Spaziani had an affair with the poet Eugenio Montale, and was the inspiration for the character la Volpe ("the Fox") in his poetry. Montale's poem "Da un lago svizzera" is an anacrostic forming Maria Luisa Spaziani. In 1995 Spaziani published her correspondence with Montale, consisting of some eight hundred letters.

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Spaziani is president of the Centro internazionale Eugenio Montale, which confers the Premio Montale, a literary prize.

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