Melinda Camber Porter In Conversation with Eugenio Montale, 1975 Milan, Italy : V1N1A: New Edition with Euroacademia 2017 Lecture 'Please Do Not Forget Eugenio Montale' and with Nobel Prize Lecture

This conversation with Eugenio Montale found Melinda Camber Porter traveling to his home in Milan, Italy in November 1976, after he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The new addition (Volume I, Number IA) of Melinda Camber Porter In Conversation With Eugenio Montale includes the lecture "Please Do Not Forget Eugenio Montale" by Joseph R. Flicek presented at the Sixth Euroacademia Conference in Florence, Italy, December 11, 2017. In this new edition V1N1A of Melinda Camber Porter in Conversation with Eugenio Montale in Milan in 1976 (Blake Press 2018), we are able to look back at events of the past and can apply them to politics today. Great insight is present for all to see in Eugenio Montale's Nobel Prize Lecture, presented in both English and Italian in this new edition, along with his conversation with Melinda Camber Porter on art, journalism, politics, poetry and society. Please do not forget Eugenio Montale, the 1975 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, for his brilliant poetry and much more. Eugenio Montale was born in 1896 and died in 1981. He served in the Italian Army during World War I. He was present for the rise of Fascism here in Florence, Italy before and during World War II. Eugenio Montale twice witnessed European Nationalism tear apart the European Continent twice causing death to millions of humans and destruction to hundreds of cities and villages across Europe. Eugenio Montale's poetry inspired by; Italy's natural beauty of the Genoa coast line; love of the American Jewish literary figure, Irma Brandeis, and destructive Nationalism of World War I and World War II. Along with Montale's love poetry for Irma Brandeis. The foreword by Canio Pavone, Professor of Italian Studies, who knew Melinda Camber Porter, introduces us to Eugenio Montale and their conversation. Melinda Camber Porter passed away from ovarian cancer in 2008 and she left a significant body of work in art, journalism, and literature. The Melinda Camber Porter Archive provides for the continuation and expansion of the ideas expressed through her art, journalism, and literature.