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1928 February: W. B. Yeats arrives with family in Rapallo, and rents apartment until spring 1930. In the autumn Yeats works on A Packet for Ezra Pound, published by Cuala Press in June 1929, and reprinted in A Vision. Autumn: Olga Rudge buys rooms in Venice (Calle Querini, 252 Dorsoduro). In following years Pound joins Olga and Mary in Venice for part of summer. A Draft of Cantos 17–27. The Exile, issues 3–4. Ta Hio: The Great Learning (translation of classic Confucian text). Selected Poems, edited by T. S. Eliot. 1929 January: ‘How To Read, or Why’ (articles in New York Herald Tribune, collected as pamphlet in 1931). June: Homer and Isabel Pound arrive in Rapallo and settle permanently. Basil Bunting in Rapallo until 1933. 1930 April: Begins collaboration (1930–32) with L’Indice of Genoa, monthly literary tabloid edited by Gino Saviotti. Olga rents the top floor of a house in the village Sant’Ambrogio, on the hill between Rapallo and Zoagli. May 25: Attends Frankfurt premiere of George Antheil’s opera Transatlantic. Summer: Visits Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art and praises Futurist pavilion (‘Venezia bella’, Indice, February 1931). August: A Draft of XXX Cantos published in limited edition by Nancy Cunard at Hours Press, Paris. 1931 October 26–27: The Testament of François Villon, words and music by Ezra Pound, broadcast by BBC. Begins work on second radio opera, Cavalcanti. 1932 January: Guido Cavalcanti: Rime published in Genoa at Pound’s expense. xxvi Posthumous Cantos
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May: Lectures on Cavalcanti in Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, as part of ‘Settimana di Cultura’. ( Joyce had declined the invitation and suggested Pound as alternative speaker.) Giovanni Scheiwiller publishes in Milan Profile: An Anthology (‘A collection of poems which have stuck in my memory, and which may possibly define their epoch’ – Pound). June: Begins collaboration (1932–40) with London paper New English Weekly. August 13: Mario Praz reviews Pound’s Cavalcanti Rime for the national daily La Stampa, finding little to praise and much to amuse. August 20: First issue of Supplemento Letterario of Rapallo weekly Il Mare, edited by Pound and Gino Saviotti (until March 18, 1933); it includes Olga’s account of meeting in Rapallo between Pound and Ford Madox Ford (reprinted in Pavannes and Divagations). December 21: Le fiamme nere, film-script by Pound and F. Ferruccio Cerio on Mussolini’s March on Rome, privately published in Rapallo. 1933 January 30: Interview with Mussolini in Rome. March 21–31: Lectures on poetry and economics at Università Bocconi, Milan. June 26–28: Organizes ‘Settimana Mozartiana’in Rapallo.Yeats briefly visits, finds Pound much changed and obsessed by economics and politics. Among guests at this time is US poet Louis Zukofsky. Summer: In Siena with Olga, who works (1933–61) as secretary to Count Guido Chigi Saracini and the Accademia Chigiana. Later joins Olga and Mary in Venice. October 10: First concert season (‘Inverno Musicale’), organized by Pound for ‘Amici del Tigullio’, opens in ‘Gran Sala del Municipio’, Rapallo. Performances by Gerhart Münch, Olga Rudge, Luigi Sansoni, and others. ABC of Economics. ABC of Reading. Make It New. 1934 Fall: Visits Venice Biennale. Comments on ‘pore ole Marinetti’ and American and French pavilions in a letter to New English Weekly, May 30, 1935. Chronology xxvii

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1928 February: W. B. Yeats arrives with family in Rapallo, and rents apartment until spring 1930. In the autumn Yeats works on A Packet for Ezra Pound, published by Cuala Press in June 1929, and reprinted in A Vision. Autumn: Olga Rudge buys rooms in Venice (Calle Querini, 252

Dorsoduro). In following years Pound joins Olga and Mary in Venice for part of summer. A Draft of Cantos 17–27. The Exile, issues 3–4. Ta Hio: The Great

Learning (translation of classic Confucian text). Selected Poems, edited by T. S. Eliot. 1929 January: ‘How To Read, or Why’ (articles in New York Herald Tribune,

collected as pamphlet in 1931). June: Homer and Isabel Pound arrive in Rapallo and settle permanently. Basil Bunting in Rapallo until 1933. 1930 April: Begins collaboration (1930–32) with L’Indice of Genoa,

monthly literary tabloid edited by Gino Saviotti. Olga rents the top floor of a house in the village Sant’Ambrogio, on the hill between Rapallo and Zoagli. May 25: Attends Frankfurt premiere of George Antheil’s opera

Transatlantic. Summer: Visits Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art and praises

Futurist pavilion (‘Venezia bella’, Indice, February 1931). August: A Draft of XXX Cantos published in limited edition by Nancy

Cunard at Hours Press, Paris. 1931 October 26–27: The Testament of François Villon, words and music by Ezra Pound, broadcast by BBC. Begins work on second radio opera, Cavalcanti. 1932 January: Guido Cavalcanti: Rime published in Genoa at Pound’s expense.

xxvi Posthumous Cantos

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