Dante Milano

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

Life He was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1899. His family were Italian immigrants. In 1947 he married a woman named Alda. He died in Petrópolis in 1991.

He was included in de Loanda's Antologia da moderna poesia brasileira in 1968. In 1988 he won the prestigious Prêmio Machado de Assis, a prize given by the Academia Brasileira de Letras for the whole body of a writer's work.

A collected edition of his works was published in 2004. A selected volume was published in 2010. A biography and study, Pós-escrito a Dante Milano: & uma biografia construtivista, was published in 2023 by poet Thomaz Albornoz Neves.