<p>In 1948, the poet Eugenio Montale published his <em>Quaderno di traduzioni</em> and created an entirely new Italian literary genre, the “translation notebook.” The <em>quaderni</em> were the work of some of Italy’s foremost poets, and their translation anthologies proved fundamental for their aesthetic and cultural development.</p><p><em>Modern Italian Poets </em>shows how the new genre shaped the poetic practice of the poet-translators who worked within it, including Giorgio Caproni, Giovanni Giudici, Edoardo Sanguineti, Franco Buffoni, and Nobel Prize-winner Eugenio Montale, displaying how the poet-translators used the <em>quaderni</em> to hone their poetic techniques, experiment with new poetic metres, and develop new theories of poetics.</p><p>In addition to detailed analyses of the work of these five authors, the book covers the development of the <em>quaderno di traduzioni</em> and its relationship to Western theories of translation, such as those of Walter Benjamin and Benedetto Croce. In an appendix, <em>Modern Italian Poets</em> also provides the first complete list of all translations and <em>quaderni di traduzioni</em> published by more than 150 Italian poet-translators.</p>