Dante Milano (June 16, 1899 – April 15, 1991) was a Brazilian poet associated with

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Life and works

He was born in

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to Italian immigrants. He had his first poem published in 1920 when he was working as an

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. He had successes in

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after that and in 1935 organized an anthology of modernist poetry. In 1947 he married a woman named Alda. His poetry has been compared to Manuel Bandeira's. In 1988 he won the prestigious Prêmio Machado de Assis. Three years after that he died in Petrópolis.

References

20th-century Brazilian poets Brazilian male poets Modernist poets Brazilian people of Italian descent Writers from Rio de Janeiro (city) 1899 births 1991 deaths 20th-century Brazilian male writers {{Brazil-poet-stub