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GiuJio Caccini: (1558-1615), Italian singer and composer at the Medici court in Florence; composer of the opera Euridice (1600). Both Galilei and Caccini were members of the Camerata Bardi, a group of musicians and literati who attempted to revive ancient Greek music and drama in the new form of opera.
ViJlon: Le Testament [E3h]. Cavalcanti: [E3a].
Sordello: [E3a].
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Antheil: George Antheil (1900-1959), American pianist and composer; accom- panied violinist Olga Rudge in numerous Paris performances of Pound's music; helped Pound edit Le Testament; see Pound's Antheil and the Treatise on Harmony [A25] and Murray Schafer, ed. , Ezra Pound and Music.
Tibor Serly: (1900-1978), Hungarian-American composer and violist; studied with Kod^ly; friend of Bela Bartok, whose music he brought to Pound's attention; composer of a symphony, a viola concerto, orchestral works, songs, etc. ; his music was performed several times during the Rapallo concerts, and he per- formed at one himself (March 3, 1935). Serly "amplified" Pound's violin sonata "by extensions"; see Charles Norman, Ezra Pound, pp. 282-3, and Murray Schafer, ed. , Ezra Pound and Music.
Ritterschaft and Bushido: chivalry in German and in Japanese.
^^: "kunshi"inJapanese("chiintsu"inChinese);theConfucianidealofman:
"a true gentleman. " LinYutang. LinYu-tang( li^J^ I'd"^) [1895-
]. Chineselinguistandnovelist; his Moment in Peking ( j^ $ %^ g ) [1939] was on the best seller list in
America.
Francesco Fiorentino: (1834-84), author of Storia della Filosofia, Scritti Varii di
Letteratura, Filosofia e Critica (1876) and II Risorgimento Filosofico neJ Quat-
trocento (1885); see "The New Learning: Part One," Guide to KuJchur.
St. Ambrogio and St. Antonino: St. Ambrose (340-397), bishop of Milan; St. An-
tonino da Firenze (1389-1459).
Motoichiro Oguimi: (1845-1941), Japanese Christian minister and educator; com-
piler of The New Testament Greek-Japanese Dictionary, published by Kyobun-
kan, Tokyo, in 1940.
John Scotus: Joannes Scotus Erigena (c. 810-c. 877), Irish Neoplatonic philosopher;
author of On the Division of Nature.
Grosseteste: Robert Grosseteste (c. 1175-1253), English theologian and astronomer. AJbertus: Albertus Magnus (1206-1280), scholastic philosopher with wide and
accurate knowledge of physical sciences of his time.
Nichomachean Ethics: see "And Therefore Tending," Guide to KuJchur.
Pilhaou-Thibaou: [C623 & C623a], "supplement ilJustre" to 391 , butions by Pound, Picabia, Jean Cocteau and Erik Satie.
containing contri-
Active Anthology: [B32].
Hood: Thomas Hood (1799-1845), English poet.
Lanier: Sidney Lanier (1842-1881), American poet.
Firdusi: Firdausi (c. 920-c. 1025), early Persian epic poet.
A Russian phiJosophicaJ student: Slovinsky; see "Murder by Capital. " Lewis' last volume: The Hitler Cult (London: Dent, 1939).
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NOTES
Hargrove; John Gordon Hargrave (1894- ), English artist and writer; leader of a faction of Social Credit movement in England; author of the novel Summer Time Ends.
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Hazard: Rowland Gibson Hazard (1801-1888), American manufacturer, writer, member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives (1851, 1854, 1880), and of the State Senate (1860). His financial articles, which gained for him a wide reputation, were written during the Civil War, and some of them were collected and published as Our Resources in 1864.
Paterson: William Paterson (1658-1719), the founder of the Bank of England. Shortly after the Revolution of 1688, when William and Mary found the royal coffers empty, Paterson and his colleagues proposed to establish the new Bank of England. See Earle Davis, Vision Fugitive: Ezra Pound and Economics (Law- rence: University Press of Kansas, 1968), pp. 85-6.
Hume: see "Essay on Money. "
W. A. OverhoJser: author of A Short Review and Analysis of the History of Money in
the United States (Libertyville, IL, 1936); contained material on usury in the U. S.
during the 1860s.
Sherman: John Sherman (1823-1900), American statesman, Senator from Ohio
(1861-77, 1881-97) and Secretary of the Treasury; see "A Visiting Card. " IkJeheimer: Ikleheimer, Morton and Van der Gould, a New York banking firm; see
"A Visiting Card" and "Gold and Work. "
Rota: author of Storia delle banche [The History of Banks] (Milan, 1874). Schacht: Hjalmar Schacht (1877-1970), German banker. President of the Reichs-
bank (1923-30, 1933-39); see Canto 52.
Verbrauchsgiiter: articles of consumption, expendables.
printed the statement: see "Ezra Pound on Gold, War, and National Money,"
Capitol Daily (May 9, 1939) [C1509].
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Count Potocki: Jerzy Potocki, Polish Ambassador to the United States, with whom Pound dined in Washington in May, 1939; Pound remarked: "God help you if you trust England. "
Lazard: family of international bankers; Lazard Freres, founded during the gold rush in California, traded in gold between San Francisco and Paris via New York and London.
Kuhn-Loeb: U. S. immigrant dry-food merchants who later became prominent in- vestment bankers in New York. The firm "Kuhn, Loeb and Co. " was founded in 1867 by brothers-in-law Abraham Kuhn (1819-1892) and Solomon Loeb (1828- 1913). James Loeb (1867-1933), American banker, planned and helped to pub- lish Loeb Classical Library.
Bullitt: William Christian Bullitt (1891-1967). then American diplomat. U. S.
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Ambassador to Russia (1933-36), and U. S. Ambassador to France (1936-41). Mandel; Georges Mandel (Jeroboam Rothschild) (1885-1944), French statesman,
Minister of the Interior in Paul Reynaud's government.
Reynaud: Paul Reynaud (1878-1966), French statesman; as Minister of Finance in
1938, pursued extreme deflationary policy; became Premier in March 1940; appointed Marshal Petain Vice Premier in May 1940; resigned on June 16, 1940, giving way to Petain.
Neu/Jize . . . Mocatta: Jewish families prominent in various fields. Sieff: Israel Moses Sieff, British industrialist, "reputed anonymous owner of . . . the Daily Mirror" (Edwards and Vasse, Annotated Index to the Cantos, p. 199), appears in Canto 74. Beit: Alfred Beit (1853-1906), South African financier and co-founder, with Cecil Rhodes, of Rhodesia. GoJdsmid; English family, settled in London in the eighteenth century. Abraham Goldsmid (1758-1810) was a prominent finan- cier; Isaac Lyon Goldsmid (1778-1859) made a large fortune by financing rail- way construction. Mocatta: old English family of Marrano origin.
Cobbett; William Cobbett (1763-1835), English journalist, social reformer and politician; published the Political Register, a radical reformist journal which decried the pitiful conditions of the working classes, and Parliamentary De- bates; elected member of Parliament after the Reform Bill of 1832 was passed.
WaJJace: Henry Agard Wallace (1888-1965). Secretary of Agriculture (1933-40), Vice-President of the U. S. (1941-45), Secretary of Commerce (1945-46); leader in the New Deal administration; author of Agricultural Prices (1920), New Frontiers (1934), Technology, Corporations and the General Welfare (1937), and other books.
Lloyd George: David Lloyd George (1863-1945), British statesman; leader of coali- tion government (December 1916-1922); leader of the Liberal Party (1926-31). Mond. -Jewishfamilyof chemists in England. Lord Alfred Mond (1868-1930), "head
of the mushrooming chemical trust, Imperial Chemical Industries," bought the English Review; see Eustace Mullins, This Difficult Individual, Ezra Pound (New York: Fleet, 1961), pp. 41-42; see also Canto 104. Robert Ludwig Mond (1868-1938), his brother, was a scientist and archaeologist. See "A Visiting Card. "
Montagu Norman: Montagu Collet Norman (1871-1950), English banker. President of the Bank of England (1920-1944).
Loeb report: report by Harold Loeb (1891-
America's Product Capacity (New York: Viking, 1935); author of The Non-
Production of Wealth (1933), Production for Use (1936), and Full Production
Without War (1946).
King Boris: Boris III, Czar of Bulgaria (1918^3).
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Fauntleroy: hero of Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886) by Frances Hodgson Burnett; (Shokoshi, in Japanese translation).
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my New England host: Pound stayed with Theodore Spencer during his visit to the U. S. in 1939.
Raffalovitch: Arthur Germanovich Raffalovich (1853-1921), Russian economist, was a Russian publicity agent in France, which exposed him to the charge of bribery.
Meyer; Arthur Meyer (1844-1924), French journalist, co-founder of Le Gaulois
(1865).
Mr. Rip van Wendell WiJJkie: Wendell Lewis Willkie (1892-1944), American
lawyer and business executive; Republican nominee for President of the U. S.
(1940); see Canto 77, 1. 257.
Carol of Rumania: Carol II (1893-1953), King of Rumania (1930-40); renounced
right of succession to throne in 1925, deserted wife, and went to Paris to live in exile with Mme. Magda Lupesu. Deprived of the throne in 1940 through German influence, he fled to Spain, Cuba, and then Mexico.
Brooks Adams: (1848-1927), American historian; direct descendent of John Adams and brother of Henry; author of The Law of Civilization and Decay (1895; 1897); America's Economic Supremacy (1900); The New Empire (1902); and Theory of Social Revolutions (1913). Pound championed The Law of Civilization and Decay, which emphasized the role played by money and usury in the rise and fall of civilizations.
"voJuta-Iavoro"; labor money.
/. F. C. Fuller: John Frederick Charles Fuller (1878-1966), British soldier; served in
Boer War and World War (1914-18); Major-General (1930); author of War and Western Civilization, 1832-1932 (1932); The Last of the Gentlemen's Wars: A Subaltern's Journal of the War in South Africa, 1899-1902 (1937); etc.
Blum: Leon Blum (1872-1950), French statesman; see Canto 80.
PierJot: Hubert Pierlot (1883-1963), Belgian statesman.
Morgenthau: Henry Morgenthau (1891-1967), American statesman, Secretary of
Treasury (1934-1945).
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Prof. Breasted: Professor of Romance languages at University of Chicago; see Guide to KuJchur, p. 62.
OverhoJser, Woodward, Beard, Bower: Willis A. Overholser, author of A Short Review and Analysis of the History of Money in the United States (1936); William E. Woodward (1874-1950), author of Money for Tomorrow (1932); Charles Austin Beard, author of An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (1913) and Economic Origins of jeffersonian Democracy (1915); Claude G. Bowers, authorofJe//erson and Hamilton: Struggle/or Democ- racy in America (1925), and Jefferson in Power, the Death Struggle of the Federalists (1936); see also Pound's letter to Kitasono, 13 January 1940.
Jerry Voorhis: monetary reformer and U. S. Congressman from California, whom Pound met in Washington in 1939; see David Heymann, The Last Rower, pp.
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85-6; and also Earle Davis, Vision Fugitive: Ezra Pound and Economics, pp.
194-6.
Chris. HoIIis: Christopher Hollis, author of The Two Nations: A Financial Study of
English History (1935).
Karl von Stein: (1757-1831), Prussian statesman.
Ruhland: Gustav Ruhland (1860-1914), author of System der politischen Okono-
mie (1939).
La Tour du Pin: Patrice de La Tour du Pin (1911-75), French poet, author of La
Quete dejoie (1933), Comme de Poesie (1946), La Contemplation Errante (1948),
and other works; see Guide to Kulchur, pp. 96 and 264.
Fabre: Jean Henri Fabre (1823-1915), French entomologist, author of Souvenirs
Entomologique, 10 vols. (1879-1907).
Frazer: James George Frazer (1854-1941), Scottish anthropologist, author of The
Golden Bough. 12 vols. (1890-1915).
Burbank; Luther Burbank (1849-1926), American horticulturist.
Otto Dietrich: (1897-1952), German journalist and politician. Since 1938 he was
Press-Chief of German government and State-Secretary in German Ministry of Propaganda.
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Skoda: firm founded by Emile von Skoda (1839-1900), a Czechoslovakian manu- facturer.
Monte dei Paschi: i. e. the Siena Bank; see Cantos 42 and 43.
C. H. Douglas . . . Butchart's compendium: Pound is referring to the list of books in his "Introductory Text Book. " C. H. Douglas, Economic Democracy; Silvio Gesell, The Natural Economic Order; R. McNair Wilson, Promise to Pay; Willis Overholser, History of Money in the U. S. ; P. Larrahaga, Gold, Glut and Gov- ernment; Montgomery Butchart, Money. Christopher Hollis is the author of The Two Nations: A Financial Study of English History, to which Pound is much
indebted.
Gerarchia: Hierarchy; journal founded by Mussolini. Rivista del Lavoro: Review of Labor.
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Reuters: Reuters, the German news agency founded by Paul Julius Renter (1816- 1899); of Jewish parentage, he became a Christian in 1844.
Havas; French news agency founded in Paris in 1835 by Charles Havas.
Boake Carter: Boake Carter (1898-1944), radio broadcaster (CBS); author of Black Shirt, Black Skin (1935) [dealing with Italy and Ethiopia); "/ohnny Q. Public" Speais! The Nation Appraises the New Deal (1936); I Talk As I Like (1937); Why Meddle in the Orient? (1938); Why Meddle in Europe? (1939); Boake Carter's Answer to Anti-Semitism; The Truth About Judah in Relation to the Anglo-
Saxon-Celtic People (1941).
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Ezra Pound to Hajime Matsumiya, Secretary of the Japanese Embassy, Rome
TLS-2 15 Dec. 1937
Dear Mr. Matsumiya
or if Sig. Matsumiya is no longer in Rome, perhaps his successor will read this as it is more urgent than permits communication via Tokio.
I am happy to say that just at this moment I have had a very interesting manifesto of Japanese poets printed in Townsman, London. I hope they will send you a copy. I am sorry you never got round to sending me your own manuscript.
In view of the accident to the American Gunboat. I think it perhaps (would) ease the strain if someone would explain to the american public that the Emperor is not exclusively a political Emperor. If they had any inkling of the religious phases of his position they might understand it better.
I mean they should be told that if not exactly a Pope, the Papacy is the only European institution representing some of his attributes.
I don't myself understand all this very clearly, but in the interest of concord, I think this phrase might be useful.
There are some civilized Americans, at least some of us are more civilized than them.
I hopetoseeyouagainwhenI cometoRome. Thenewmicrophoto- graphic and photostat process, using Leica films and enlarging them, op- ens a totally new possibility for bilingual texts.
I meanwecannowprint ideogramic texts, and any oriental scripts as cheaply as we do our own
printing in alphabet, and texts faced by translation into English or French, German, Italian, can now be produced at a rate which will per- mit their sale to students.
It is quite possible that someone in Tokio could start this exchange of culture more quickly and intelligently than unofficial persons like my- self can do it here.
with cordial recollections of our meeting I remain yours very sincerely
Ezra Pound
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Ezra Pound to Yosuke Matsuoka, Japanese Ambassador to Rome TLS-1 29 March 1941
To His Excellency YOSUKE MATSUOKA
Ernest Fenollosa's literary executor begs leave to present his respects and to hope that after the present tension has passed Fenollosa's work may be better continued.
It has been my experience that no occidental decently aware of the qualities of your Noh drama can be infected with anti-japanese propa- ganda, especially of the beastly sort I found two years ago in the U. S. , thethemebeing"yah/ wecanstarveyouout,"andthismeanlyex- pressed cinematographicly.
Men like myself would cheerfully give you Guam for a few sound films such as that of Awoi no Uye, which was shown for me in Washing- ton. I regret deeply that there are not more of us.
But in any case the least, and alas probably the most that I can do is to assure you that the seeds of respect and affection sown by Fenollosa have not been wholly unfruitful. I mean in a few American minds for the qualities of Japanese spirit.
I beg your Excellency to accept this assurance of my respect.
Ezra Pound
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