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Ezra Pound. Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy and the Salò Republic during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and his 800-page epic poem ...
Ezra Pound's radio broadcasts, 1941–1945. The expatriate American poet Ezra Pound recorded or composed hundreds of broadcasts in support of fascism for Italian radio during World War II and the Holocaust in Italy. Based in Italy since 1924, Pound collaborated with the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini and expressed support for Adolf Hitler.
Schloss Brunnenburg is situated above the city of Merano, on the outskirts of the municipality of Tirol.Originally built circa 1250, the castle was completely restored and updated in the mid-20th century by Boris de Rachewiltz, an Egyptologist, and his wife Mary, daughter of the poet Ezra Pound and violinist Olga Rudge; Mary lives there to this day.
If This Be Treason ... is a 33-page booklet published privately in Italy in early 1948 by Olga Rudge, mistress of the American poet Ezra Pound. [1] [2] Pound, who lived in Italy with his wife from 1924 to 1945, was indicted in absentia for treason in 1943 by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia after he made hundreds of radio broadcasts, pro-Axis and deeply antisemitic ...
Between 23 January 1941 [12] and 28 March 1945, American poet Ezra Pound recorded or composed hundreds of broadcasts for EIAR. [13] [14] Broadcast in English, and sometimes in Italian, German, and French, [15] the EIAR programme was transmitted to England, central Europe, and the United States. [14]
CasaPound Italia (abbr. CPI; "House of [Ezra] Pound ") is an Italian neo-fascist [4] movement. It was formerly a political party, born as a network of far-right social centres arising from the occupation of a state-owned building by squatters in the neighborhood of Esquilino in Rome on 26 December 2003. Subsequently, CasaPound spread with other ...
Rapallo. Rapallo (US: / rəˈpɑːloʊ / rə-PAH-loh, [3] Italian: [raˈpallo], Ligurian: [ɾaˈpalːu]) is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa, in the Italian region of Liguria. As of 2017 it had 29,778 inhabitants. [2] It lies on the Ligurian Sea coast, on the Tigullio Gulf, between Portofino and Chiavari, 25 kilometers ...
The Cantos. The Cantos is a long modernist poem by Ezra Pound, written in 109 canonical sections in addition to a number of drafts and fragments added as a supplement at the request of the poem's American publisher, James Laughlin. Most of it was written between 1915 and 1962, although much of the material in the first three cantos was ...