before starting a communication of
service after the test who it was
interested here behind the scenes there
a time machine and me if there
Trust me, I can fly it where you want to go
Well I am a poet a storyteller
theatrical therefore depended on me certain
very clear ideas in mind that maybe and
they also become a bit of mine
activity I would like to set type I do not know
the London of 1600 to see the first
of the shakespeare hamlet with directed by
shakespeare and with shakespeare the funk
a particle with acidity in the part
of the ghost or the athene of the fifth
century ahead of Christ to see the first
the edipo re of sofocles directed by
sofocles or the firenze of the fourteenth century a
see giovanni boccaccio who reads e
comments the divine comedy of Dante
you are spoiled for choice or better
we would be spoiled for choice if
it was going to be like saying
a trip already we go see it
show and go back home
if instead it were to move into
stable plant for some months or from
some years
I would have no doubt and I think that
you should not have even you go
certainly all together in Paris in the
twenties of the twentieth century
a quantity with incredible present
artistic talents but what kind of
talents of geniuses look at you who
wax
Look, we could meet
this gentleman here pablo picasso
salvador dalì all are then there
that gentleman who did not always go in
ride like that
murray is the author of this very picture
famous here together with ali writers of
some ernest hemingway talent
francis scott fitzgerald the great author
Gatsby
then there’s him with the james joyce bandage
the author of the incredible
extraordinarily experimental ulisse and
then there is this gentleman here ezra pound
two words about this gentleman is a poet
US will write a work
considered one of the masterpieces of the
twentieth century in poetry and singing are
116 county where he tries one
crazy experimentation with the language are
written in English but with grafts in
Latin greek ancient French Chinese
translated from Chinese but not later
it is only a great artist is
also a kind of point lighthouse
reference to other brilliant minds
that I’m there with him
he will introduce him to james joyce
sylvia beach that will become his
publisher ernest hemingway future award
nobel will say of pound well we are there
teachers each other something because I
I taught him to pull boxing and
he taught me what to write or not
write then
it was a great environment but among all
those that would press me more than
meet beppe well it would be him
ezra pound is naturally beautiful now
fantasize beautiful daydream of
time machines etc. but we know
all that the machines of the time do not
they exist neither here behind
nowhere else in the world e
probably never will exist is
the only way to have a relationship col
passed and study it now I studying
this extraordinary era by informing ho
I learned something that I did not know myself
they left very much perplexed
perplexed that is that at a certain point e
more precisely in 1925
one of these paul of these inhabitants
of the earthly paradise let’s call it that
he went away he went away from
paris to whom who has done a thing of the
kind is here
ezra pound and where he went to three gone
where he came he would say he came
here in Italy because ezra pound was a
great connoisseur of history was
love the past but one thing I
he haunted him more than he loved
all the others the Italian renaissance
and therefore they entered from here in Italy and goes
to visit the cities that have been
protagonists of the Renaissance and that he
he mentioned in the songs or better in the first ones
16 sing songs of the only singles that
at that time there existed 1925 and between
these cities there is a city that he
he never saw in person but he mentioned
four times four times in the songs
from the eighth to the eleventh, that is, with one
average of once per song is the
city where I was born 39 years ago e
where you are now
cesena
what’s in cesena what’s in cesena
year of grace 1454 is opened to the
public the Malatesta library is
the first civic library of the world la
first civic library in the world
there were other libraries more
ancient but they were deprived of monasteries of
gentlemen that library open to
public every civic library that is
today on earth at that library
as an ancestor in the literal sense in the
literary meaning in the sense that it was born
first now what is a library and a
place where much care is accumulated
the care of the scribes to copy a
code the care of the scholars of the
humanists understand exactly the
meaning of a text the care of the
custodians of course but at some point
a cesena raided something that
he had very little care about the revolution
Napoleonic napoleon in person is
entered in Cesena on horseback and his
soldiers have made litter of the
library in the sense that they have taken off
from the room the books removed the desks
ripped through the walls to make windows more
great in which more light passed
air desecration
but in the twenties of the twentieth century
the then director who was called
manlio torquato duties did work
extraordinary restoration restoration
a work of great great care
closed modern windows made
restore the restored ancient ones e
brought back into the desks and above all
the books when I arrived between pound a
cesena is he who welcomes him
demonstrates the Malatesta as it was in
principle as it was 500 years ago
a kind of guided tour of a
quarter of an hour a jump of a quarter of an hour
five hundred years back in time in
shows this now traveling that many
among you they were in the old part
of the Malatesta library that
obviously in the meantime it was
expanded this part is now called
the audience hall of the architect’s name
you all know that this photo does not make it
justice something really
awesome to be there and
Mostly it seems that for a moment
to the other a humanist of the
five hundred get to study and better
touched data shows this thing is
entry to the man in love with the past
the man who had mentioned four times
cesena without even having ever seen it but
the coup de grace is another but the 84
from take you in about and demonstrate one
engraving on the wall sees Mr. pound and
There are nine letters engraved the UCI has rts
of lucrezia b now signor pound mine
hypothesis is that this is the signature of
lucrezia borgia another character
legendary of the Italian renaissance
what had happened January of 1502
lucrezia borgia at 21 years goes from Rome to
ferrara to marry her third husband
alfonso d’este made up in cesena where
his brother Caesar was reigning
Grand Duke of Romagna
enters in Cesena, they say the news with
a stock of a thousand knights followed by
150 unique bring the gold dowry gems
the bells played precious clothes
shoot the cannons 100 children dressed in
yellow and purple the heraldic colors
of the borgias they run towards it bringing
each an olive branch visits the
city is obviously visiting the
Malatesta Library
the most precious place in the city e
according to me I found him duties leave the
his signature as any girl
is upset he is really fascinated and
the pound from this thing decides to do
a gift a gift to the city of
cesena brings as a gift to the mafia stiana
a book an edition out of commerce
very limited of the sixteen songs it has
written so far writes of his fist in
Italian one dedicates in time that his
friend mario dazi was ezra librarian
pound led to this book as a gift
alla malatestiana as a sign of friendship e
of 65 1925 ep
hydra pound and just below it
page with a slight writing
more minute but the 84 customs note
the original and out of trade in 80
copies not filed in the
national library of paris nor
at that of London but uniquely
at the malatestiana of cesena for
the interest of the Malatesta songs mtd
but I found it sorry data is not
I made a great photograph of them
but it’s between punk and it’s a favor to duties
that his book is left there
along with the others along with the codes
ancient lines lab renaissance art
in the classroom of the utri and this of
facing this request by an artist
so great
Tormented manlio says no
of course
no malatesta library in the classroom
of the loot come must be exactly
as it was 500 years ago they are not allowed
intrusions for how much illustrious and un
great poet no but we talk about cesena in
that poem but the history of the
poetry
no the name of the perfect philology the
name of the cure the name of the dedication
no is the end of a friendship and the
peacock better torqued data yes
they will register for life and in 100
songs that will write later between
pound citera cesena other three times and in
one of these three times will cite
that quarter of an hour
fabulous in which he visited the
Malatesta writing in canto 74
sorry for the pronunciation time from a lucrezia
and not the back of the door on stage a
worcester initials jolie hot in the
malatestiana torqued a rocket that wants
to say more or less came madam
lucrezia ie lucrezia borgia and behind
there are at least no door to the cesena
there were still the initials that beautiful
quarter of an hour in French in
Malatesta in Italian
torquato that is but I found him duties
where you are in archaic English
in short, if I had a car
time
I would go there in the Paris of the twentieth
century and of the 20s although in
reality who was the
He went away to stay
amazed stunned astonished in front
to the place where we are
[Applause]
if you want to see the gift that the poet
made to powerful cesena of course it is not
in the detained classroom is in a safe
but whoever makes the request can
see him see his paper pages
fine the opening words that are decorated
different with each song and above all
see your dedication with your own eyes
moved by pound and the note of the great
granitic 34 duties you will be conducted as
me in a room where at a table
near some restorers take themselves
care of the ancient texts of the codes
medieval
so there in your hands the book of
pound I like to think he can feel
the smell of those books hear the rustle
of their pages of parchment and dreaming
to be with them where he was
I hoped to be admitted I think it
will be happy
[Applause]
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