Drusilla Tanzi

Drusilla Tanzi (5 April 1885 – 20 October 1963) was an Italian writer who was born and died in Milan.

Life and career Tanzi was the daughter of the socialist lawyer Carlo Tanzi. She was a niece of Eugenio Tanzi, sister of Lidia and Silvio Tanzi, and (via Lidia) aunt of Natalia Ginzburg. Eugenio Montale. She married for the second time in 1958 only after her first husband's death that same year, even though she had been living with Montale long before that time.

Tanzi was nicknamed "Mosca" (fly) because of her thick glasses to correct a strong myopia. who dedicated two sections of his 1971 poetry collection Satura to her. In 1927 the 30-year-old poet fell in love with Drusilla Tanzi, the wife of an eminent Italian art critic. Myopic, not beautiful, overbearing, she remained the central woman of his life until her death. The two met after Montale moved to Florence to pursue his poetry and he moved into the home she shared with her husband and the critic, Marangoni. Tanzi and the poet soon became lovers and moved in together on via Duca di Genova. Montale featured her in many of his works using her Mosca nickname, but he kept her true identity secret for many years.

Selected works Tanzi, D. (2014). Caro piccolo insetto. Dear little bug, 80–84.