Plunkett, whose book offers close readings of the poems as well as the life, quite likes “My Butterfly ... Take, for instance, the famous penultimate line of 1913’s “Mowing ...

In one of the 50 marvelous sketches populating Eugenio Montale’s “Butterfly of Dinard,” a ... as one of Italy’s most important modern poets and a hero for his opposition to Fascism.