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December 2: Marinetti, returned from the Russian front, dies in Bellagio. Pound at work on an Italian canto (72) in which he imagines a conversation with Marinetti’s ghost. Publishes Italian pamphlets: L’America, Roosevelt e le cause della guerra presente; Oro e lavoro; Introduzione alla natura economica degli S.U.A.; Orientamenti (a collection of articles from Meridiano di Roma); Jefferson e Mussolini. 1945 January 15 and February 1: Two Italian cantos (part of 72 and all of 73) appear in Marina Repubblicana, a fugitive paper edited by a friend, Admiral Ubaldo degli Uberti. Chiung Iung: L’asse che non vacilla. May 2: American troops in Rapallo. May 3: Pound arrested in Sant’Ambrogio by two partisans and taken to Zoagli; thence, with Olga, to Chiavari headquarters. Asks to be handed over to American troops in Lavagna and is driven to US Counter Intelligence Center in Via Fieschi, 6, Genoa. Olga remains with him until May 7. US Intelligence officers visit Sant’Ambrogio and confiscate papers. While in Genoa has access to typewriter and translates Studio integrale as The Great Learning. May 24: Transferred to US Disciplinary Training Center in Metato, north of Pisa. Writes ( July–November) the Pisan Cantos (74–84). November 16–18: Taken from Pisa to Rome and flown to Washington. November 19: Appears before Chief Judge Bolitha J. Laws. November 26: First hearing in court. December 4: Transferred ‘for observation’ to Gallinger Hospital, as requested by Julien Cornell, counsel for defence. December 14: Psychiatrists declare Pound ‘insane and mentally unfit for trial’. December 24: Motion for bail denied. Committed to St Elizabeths Hospital. 1946 February 13: New hearing confirms insanity. July: Dorothy arrives in Washington. September: Part of canto 80 appears in Poetry. Cantos 77 and 84 published in other journals. xxx Posthumous Cantos
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October: Mary marries Boris de Rachewiltz. 1947 Confucius: The Unwobbling Pivot & The Great Digest published by New Directions. Birth of grandson Siegfried Walter de Rachewiltz. 1948 January: Olga issues in Siena If This Be Treason, pamphlet containing six wartime broadcasts. July 30: The Pisan Cantos published by New Directions. October: Rapallo mayor and townspeople sign a statement declaring that Pound never participated in Fascist gatherings and ‘anti-​ Semitic acts’. 1949 February 20: Pisan Cantos awarded Bollingen Prize for poetry by Library of Congress. 1950 Birth of grand-daughter Patrizia de Rachewiltz. Letters 1907–1941, preface by Mark Van Doren. Patria Mia. 1951 Confucian Analects published in Square $ Series, series of pamphlets chosen by Pound (Ernest Fenollosa, Louis Agassiz, Alexander Del Mar, Thomas Hart Benton). 1952 Artist Sheri Martinelli (1918–96) visits Pound and becomes a protégée. 1953 The Translations, introduction by Hugh Kenner. 1954 Literary Essays, edited with an introduction by T. S. Eliot. The Classic Anthology Defined by Confucius (Harvard UP). October 31: Il Mare prints a letter from Eliot, dated October 27, Chronology xxxi

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December 2: Marinetti, returned from the Russian front, dies in

Bellagio. Pound at work on an Italian canto (72) in which he imagines a conversation with Marinetti’s ghost. Publishes Italian pamphlets: L’America, Roosevelt e le cause della guerra presente; Oro e lavoro; Introduzione alla natura economica degli S.U.A.; Orientamenti (a collection of articles from Meridiano di Roma); Jefferson e Mussolini. 1945 January 15 and February 1: Two Italian cantos (part of 72 and all of

73) appear in Marina Repubblicana, a fugitive paper edited by a friend, Admiral Ubaldo degli Uberti. Chiung Iung: L’asse che non vacilla. May 2: American troops in Rapallo. May 3: Pound arrested in Sant’Ambrogio by two partisans and taken to Zoagli; thence, with Olga, to Chiavari headquarters. Asks to be handed over to American troops in Lavagna and is driven to US Counter Intelligence Center in Via Fieschi, 6, Genoa. Olga remains with him until May 7. US Intelligence officers visit Sant’Ambrogio and confiscate papers. While in Genoa has access to typewriter and translates Studio integrale as The Great Learning. May 24: Transferred to US Disciplinary Training Center in Metato,

north of Pisa. Writes ( July–November) the Pisan Cantos (74–84). November 16–18: Taken from Pisa to Rome and flown to Washington. November 19: Appears before Chief Judge Bolitha J. Laws. November 26: First hearing in court. December 4: Transferred ‘for observation’ to Gallinger Hospital, as requested by Julien Cornell, counsel for defence. December 14: Psychiatrists declare Pound ‘insane and mentally unfit for trial’. December 24: Motion for bail denied. Committed to St Elizabeths

Hospital. 1946 February 13: New hearing confirms insanity. July: Dorothy arrives in Washington. September: Part of canto 80 appears in Poetry. Cantos 77 and 84

published in other journals.

xxx Posthumous Cantos

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