Antonia Pozzi, born in Milan in 1912, lived a brief life, dying by suicide in 1938. Though she left among her papers over several hundred poems, none of her poetry was published during her lifetime. After her death, her work was at first altered—really, censored— by her father and privately published in a 1939 edition; subsequent editions and a 1955 English translation will continue to present these altered versions of her work. It will not be until 1989 that editors Alessandra Cenni and Onorina Dino restore the poems to their original form in Parole, an authoritative text of Pozzi’s poetry, the most recently revised edition of which is Tutte le opera (2009), edited by Cenni.