Gabriele Tinti, recipient of the 2018 Montale Poetry Award, is an Italian poet and writer. He has worked with the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Roman Museum, the Capitoline Museums, the Archeological Museum in Naples, the Ara Pacis Museums and the Glyptothek of Munich, composing poems for ancient works of art, including The Boxer at Rest , the Discobolus , Arundel Head , the Ludovisi Gaul , the Victorious Youth , the Farnese Hercules , the Hercules by Scopas , the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon, the Barberini Faun and many other masterpieces. His poems have been recited by actors like Kevin Spacey, Malcolm McDowell, Abel Ferrara, Joe Mantegna, Stephen Fry, James Cosmo, Robert Davi, Marton Csokas, Franco Nero, Jamie McShane, Vincent Piazza, Michele Placido and Alessandro Haber. David Graham lives in Venice and has been translating from Italian to English for almost thirty years. He specializes in art, including art criticism, mainly for exhibition catalogues. He has translated guide books for almost all of Venice's museums and art galleries, and for some years also the catalogues for the Venice Art / Architecture Biennale. His more recent work has included several major publications for the Vatican Museums.

He also likes to dabble in poetry from time to time.