“Se un uomo non è disposto a correre dei rischi per le sue idee, vuol dire che le sue idee non valgono nulla o che non vale nulla him. "He told me for the first time Mr Beppe Niccolai after a rally held by Marco Cellai risky in Piazza San Michele in Lucca in the mid 70s. Attacked several times by a mass democratic left-wing extremists, which had intervened in Lucca, Tuscany by half to prevent the right to speak, if we defended the police had given way, for us would be the end. "They are not my words - Niccolai said, - but of Ezra Pound, the great author of the Pisan Cantos. "Who?" I asked, that I had never heard of and I did not even have understood the name straniero.Beppe Niccolai looked at me with extreme severity, angry words with his eyes quella mia ignoranza e, senza dubbio perché deluso e adirato, non mi rispose.Capii allora che per uno di destra era una mancanza che doveva essere colmata.Domandai ad un amico professore e questi, non appena gli feci il nome alquanto storpiato di Ezra Pound, mi ridisse la frase di Niccolai, che era dunque conosciuta, ma non volle, o forse non seppe, dirmi altro.Mi segnai comunque la frase. Mi piacque, la feci mia, cercai di metterla in pratica ed ora sono certo che mi ha fortemente condizionato, forse per l’intera vita.Qualche anno più tardi trovai su una rivista di destra alcuni dei suoi famosi aforismi, ma il primo libro che mi è capitato fra le mani è stato quello di Giano Accame pubblicato nel 1995 col titolo “Ezra Pound economista - Usury. " An excellent book, very clear. I read in a couple of days and even took notes, I like the Cantos riproporre.Il great poet did not drink, did not smoke and dressed as the captain had no car, spent little, never had any debts, nor problems personal with the usurers. The aversion to wear was so unselfish, all concettuale.Ha fact of his work and his life in a crusade against usury, which is defined in the Cantos the beast centipede that suffocates the prodigal son in ventre.Si much for his artist friends . Hemingway wrote: "Ezra Pound devotes a fifth of his working time to write poetry. In the remaining time trying to promote the future, both material and artistic, of his friends. "Married to Dorothy, he also loved the musician Olga Rudge, who bore him a son. And his wife is going to Egypt and returned to his remaining time with a pregnant altro.Nella his poetry breaks the economy. In the Cantos, which occupies the economy in the Divine Comedy by Dante is that of theological knowledge. There was a reformist statement. And when he was in Italy, the country where you could find better, his sympathies for Mussolini were primarily a function of being accepted as tale.Voleva that the economic sovereignty was in the hands of the people and not between merchants denaro.Fu first to argue that you had to work less for all work. "Technical and men of good sense wise - Pound argued in his ABC of economics - we are assured that the issue of production is resolved. The global production system can produce all that man needs. There is not the slightest reason to doubt it. With the increase in mechanical efficiency, the production of which has now spoken will always require less time and human effort. In a healthy economy that is slow for various reasons, should be distributed over a very considerable amount of people ... Let the man work four hours for the pay or, if he still wants to work, leave work as any artist or poet, let him decorate the house or garden or stretch your legs in some form of exercise or bend your back on a card table and sit on his butt and smoke ... I know, not from theory but from practice, that you can live infinitely better with very little money and a lot of free time instead of more money and less time. Time is not money, but almost everything else. " Supporter of fascism, it was not fascist (not enrolled yet, nor the party organizations or to side) and was not anti-communist. In 1931 he declared: "The Communist Party in Russia and the Fascist Party in Italy are examples of an active aristocracy. We are the best people, pragmatic, conscious, more reflective and volitional elements of their nations. "It was often compared positive between Mussolini and Lenin, more free, because it "did not have the Vatican in his garden, thinking that the two revolutions of the century (Bolshevik and fascist) should be interconnected. The same thing also tried his friend Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, the father of fascism futurismo.Scambiò for a system of freedom, because in Italy there was good and, after trying intolerance American (he was thrown out of the university for hosted a night, it seems even innocently, un'attricetta cash-strapped who did not know where to go to sleep), we felt more free. He was a pacifist, a non-violent and did not like the uniforms. He was the only poet admitted at Bocconi University, the most important university business, to hold a series of lectures on the economy. But his plans for national and international economic reorganization were paid by the secretariat of the Duce with notes for internal use like this: it is a project weird conceived by a foggy mind, devoid of any sense of reality. Someone said: "Pound did not understand fascism and fascism did not understand Pound." At the birth of the Italian Social Republic, was enthusiastic about the 18 points of Verona Fascist Republican Party and hoped that after the nationalization of enterprises, Mussolini also accept his principles of economic reform and Confucian. It is called fascist left in cantos 72 and 73 enhances the ideals, although beginning with the words War of shit. In song 72 very beautiful and intense kind of Dante's encounter with the spirit of Marinetti, who died Dec. 2 and civilization Italy 1944.Nella magazine read: "We finally Roosevelt and Churchill, and all their comrades, that the fascists more aware, which have always recognized in communism the only living force contrary to his own, not so much in Russia as in England and plutocratic plutocratic America have identified their enemy. " It was also the thought of Ezra Pound. "This war was caused not by a whim of Mussolini or Hitler. This war - claimed Ezra Pound - Is part of the ancient war between moneylenders and farmers, among usurocrazia and whoever does an honest day's work with the hands or with the intellect. " "To this statement - Janus writes Accame - ended in an asylum." Accused of treason by the U.S. as early as July 1943, was arrested May 3, 1945 and brought to the Disciplinary Training Center near Pisa, where he was locked in a cage and gorilla treated worse than an animal for three weeks. He had to fight himself not to go crazy. On 18 November, after writing to the infirmary the Pisan Cantos, which are the best of his poetry, he was transferred to America where, without trial, he was declared of unsound mind and closed per dodici anni nel manicomio criminale di St. Elizabeths”.Nel marzo del 1949 Eugenio Montale lo presentò ai lettori italiani con un articolo sul Corriere della Sera intitolato Fronde d’alloro in un manicomio. “Poesie di un pazzo? – scrisse Montale a proposito dei Cantos. – Nemmeno per sogno, a meno che non si vogliano considerare come pazzi i tre quarti degli scrittori d’avanguardia contemporanei. L’opinione corrente è che Ezra sia stato considerato pazzo per salvarlo dal carcere perpetuo o dalla pena di morte”.Molte personalità americane e molti altri scrittori e poeti italiani, tra cui Giovanni Papini, Riccardo Bacchelli, Piero bigongiari, Giorgio Caproni, Libero de Libero, Carlo Bo, Alfonso Gatto, Mario Luzi, Alberto Moravia, Marino Moretti, Aldo Palazzeschi, Alessandro Parronchi, Clemente Rebora, Umberto Saba, Ignazio Silone, Giuseppe Ungaretti e Cesare Zavattini, chiesero a più riprese la sua liberazione. La stessa cosa fece anche José V. de Pina Martins da Radio Vaticana. Uscì dal manicomio il 7 maggio 1958 e si imbarcò per l’Italia con la moglie Dorothy e l’amica Marcella. All’arrivo fece il saluto romano e disse che l’America era tutta un manicomio.E’ morto il 1° novembre del 1972, quando io avevo già 22 anni. Avrei potuto incontrarlo e parlarci!
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