The Cantos
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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 publish
Opening page of the first American edition, published 1933
Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta "built a temple so full of pagan works" (Canto XI). Portrait by Piero della Francesca.
Venice: "Flat water before me, / and the trees growing in water, / Marble trunks out of stillness, / On past the palazzi, / in the stillness, The light now, not of the sun" (Canto XVII)
Thomas Jefferson, who was, in Pound's view, a new Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta.
Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta was an Italian condottiero and nobleman, a member of the House of Malatesta and lord of Rimini and Fano from 1432. He commanded the Venetian forces in the 1465 campaign a
The Cantos
…Pound's own visits to Venice to create a textual collage saturated with neoplatonist images of clarity and light. Cantos VIII–XI draw on the story of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, 15th-century poet, condottiero, lord of Rimini and patron of the arts. Quoting extensively from primary sources, including Malatesta's letters, Pound…
Fresco with Galeazzo Maria Sforza (right), by Benozzo Gozzoli
Sigismund in armor by Pisanello - Museo Correr
Sigismondo Malatesta, fresco by Piero della Francesca.