david.bircumshaw wrote:
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> >one recalls
> > the remark Mussolini made, which Pound so treasured, when Pound gave him
> > a copy of the early Cantos - "Ma questa, e divertente!"
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> Frederick
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> I'm genuinely puzzled here. I always thought that Pound had but a single
> audience with Mussolini at which the dictator made some suitably polite
> remarks about the copy of the Cantos which the poet presented him but that
> Il Duce never read the work. While Pound went away convinced that Mussolini
> was a Renaissance man and fully conversant on Social Credit, such was the
> impaired state of the poet's mind at the time.
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It's been years since I read the biographies - but as I recall the Boss
leafed through it, squared his jaw, made a show of brief but deep
concentration, and uttered the remark that P included in the Cantos
(adding "thus getting the point before the literati got there").
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