From his publication of Somiglianze in 1975 at the age of twenty-four, Milo De Angelis is among the most celebrated of living Italian poets. Known beyond his poetry for his essays and translations of Virgil, Lucretius, Racine, Baudelaire, and Blanchot, in the 1970s he founded the literary journal Il Niebo. In 2017, De Angelis was awarded the prestigious Premio Lerici Pea for his body of work.