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A
A, Mr: 62/92,9 see John ADAMS.
Aaron 74/23: see Aaron BURR.
AA VV 42/5 Altesses Vôtres (Fr) your highnesses (See:
FER-
NANDO II of Tus cany).
Aba tchan, Maen tchan, Tihali tchan: 58/66: Manchu general officer
ranks
abbazia: 9/36, 76/39. (It) abbey.
Abbeville 66/126 commune of the Somme department, N France.
Abdul Baha 46/26 see Sir Abdul Baha BAHAI.
Abdul Mejid48/34: 1824-61, Ottoman sultan (1839-61).
Abelard. 80/90 Peter, 1079-1142, the French philosopher and teacher
Abercromb1e-71/160 Sir Robert, 1740-1827, British general in the
French and Indian and the American Revolutionary Wars.
"a better fencer than I was 11:74/20 from Kumasaka. (See Trans-
lations, 252)
Abigail-62/90,95. see Abigail ADAMS.
Abingdon 64/101 Abington, town in Plymouth county, Massachusetts.
Abner 77/42: DTC, Pisa.
Abrâm:44/19 Napoleonic representative in Siena, C 1799.
abuleia: 5/19, 54/31 abulia, loss of will power.
Académie Goncourt: 77/50. (Fr) the Goncourt Academy (Paris).
a cavallo 79/63 (It) on horseback.
Accademia Romana:11/50: the Roman Academy of Pomponio Leto for
the study of Latin antiquity. In 1469 Pope Paul II (Pietro BARBO)
closed the Accademia Romano, accusing Leto of conspiracy
against the papacy and having Leto and Bartolomeo SACCHIthrown
into prison.
ac ego in harum. 39/44, 74/14, [17] (L)
haram and I too in the
pig-sty.
à ce que l'argent circule: 53/16: (Fr) that money circulate. (See
Mailla, Histoire Générale, II, 23).
ac ferae familiares: 20/94; 76/35: (L) and domesticated wild animals.
Achaia: 74/22, 25: Achaea, region of ancient Greece, N Peloponnesus,
on Gulf of Corinth, later the Roman province, called Achaia,
founded by Augustus.
Achilles 80/80: see PIUS XI.
Acoetes 2/7, 8: the pilot of the ship taking DIONYSUS to NAXOS to
marry Ariadne. The crew, not realizing his identity, attempts
to abduct Dionysus, Dionysus causes tigers and leopards to ap-
pear on ship, entwines the mast with vines, and turns the sailors
into dolphins. Only Acoetes 1S spared. (See: Ovid, Metamor-
phoses, III; Homeric Hymn VII, To Dionysus).
Acre: :6/21: the port in Palestine. ELEANOR of Aquitaine landed
there on the Second Crusade (1146-49).
Actaeon: 4/14; 80/79: while hunting he came upon ARTEMIS bathing
in the pool of GARGAPHIA, she changed Actaeon into a stag, and
he was torn to pieces by his own dogs. (See: Ovid, Metamor-
phoses, III, 138-252).
Acta Sanctorum:" 71/163, 164. (L) deeds of the saints The name given
[ 1 ]
ACTIUM
[21
to collections of biographies of saints and martyrs, especially to
that of the Bollandists
Actium 21/99 promontory and town, NW Arcanania, Greece, site of the
battle (31 BC) between Octavian and the forces of Antony and Cleopatra
Actum in Castro Sigismundo, presente Roberto de Valturibus/
sponte et ex certa scienta 11/52 (L) Donc in the Castle Signsmund,
before Roberto de VALTURIO/ freely and of clear knowledge
Actum Senis: 42/7, 43/13 (L) done at Siena
actus/ legis nulli facit injuriam. 64/102- (L) an act of law does harm
to none. (See: John Adams, Works, II, 159).
Adair 31/5 James, 13th-century trader in Georgia and the Carolinas,
author of The History of the American Indians (1775) in which he
advanced the theory that the Indians were descendants of the Jews.
Adam 22/102, 64/107 the first man.
[Adam] 45/24 architect and sculptor of the Zeno Maggiore, the
Veronese basilica.
Adam, the Brothers. 84/118. poss. Brooks Adams [1843-1027, son of
Charles Francis ADAMS, brother of Henry Brooks Adams, Am-
erican historian] and Henry Brooks ADAMS, or poss. Robert
(1738-92) and James (1730-94) Adam, English architects and de-
signers of furniture in the classical style.
Adamo me fecit: 45/24 (It) Adam (L) made me.
Adams: 74/11 see Henry Brooks ADAMS.
Adams 74/14; 76/33. DTC, Pisa.
Adams 13/3, 4, 6, 32/7, 9, 50/40, 62/90, 95, 96, 65/110, 117, 118, 122; 69/
150; 71/161, 162, 164, 165, see John ADAMS.
Adams 34/15,18, 37/31 see John Quincy ADAMS.
[Adams, Abigail] 62/90, 95. 1744-1810, wife of John ADAMS.
Adams, Charles Francis [42/3]; 48/34; [62/88,90, 67/138]: 1807-
86, son of John Quincy ADAMS, U. S. statesman, minister to
Great Britain (1861-68); edited letters of Abigail ADAMS, Works
of John ADAMS (10 vol., 1850-56) and Memoirs of John Quincy
ADAMS (12 vol , 1874-77).
Adams, Charles H :42/3: see Charles Francis ADAMS.
[Adams, Elihu 1.64/101- brother of John ADAMS, made deputy sher-
iff of Braintree, Massachusetts, 17 61.
[Adams, George Washington 34/18: ?1801-28, eldest son of John
Quincy ADAMS.
[Adams, Henry ].62/87: 1646, founder of the Adams family in Am-
erica, in 1640 he was granted 40 acres at Mt. WOLLASTON, later
BRAINTREE, Massachusetts.
[Adams, Henry Brooks] :74/11; 84/118(?): 1838-1918, son of Charles
Francis ADAMS; American historian, taught medieval history at
Harvard (1870-77).
Adams, John (J., Johnnie) 31/3, 4, 5, 6; 32/7, 33/11; 37/36; 48/34;
50/40, 52/3; 62/87, [89], 90, 91, 92, [93,95], 96; 63/97; 64/[101],
102; 65/110, 112, 114, [116], 117, 118, [120, 121], 122, [123]; 66/131; 67/
138; 68/[141], 142, 143, [147,148]; 69/150, [151]; 70/155, 156, [158];
71/161, 162, 164, 165, [166]; 74/17, 76/35; 81/96; 84/116, 118: 1735-
1826, second President of the U. S. (1796-1800). Delegate to
First CONTINENTAL CONGRESS (1774); appointed commissioner
[3]
AEETES
to France (1777-78) and minister to the United Provinces (1730-
82), envoy to Great Britain (1785-88), elected Vice-President
(1788, 1792), serving under George Washington.
Adams, John Quincy (J. Q., J. Quincy).31/5, 34/15, [17], 18, 19, 37/
31,32, [62/94], 63/97, [64/104], 65/115, [68/144] 1767-1848, sixth
President of the U. S. (1825-29). Son of John ADAMS, member
of the U. S Senate (1803-08), minister to Russia (1809-11), mem-
ber of commission to negotiate the peace after War of 1812, min-
1ster to Great Britain (1815), Secretary of State under MONROE
(1817-25), after term as President, he served in the House of
Representatives (1831-48).
Adams, Joseph. 62/87. 1626?-94, youngest son of Henry ADAMS,
great-grandfather of John ADAMS and Samuel ADAMS.
Adams, Samuel (Sam, Saml):34/17, 62/90, 64/102, 65/110, 119, 66/130;
67/138, 71/165, 166: 1722-1803, American patriot Leader of the
Massachusetts legislature (1765-74), active at the Boston Tea
Party (1773), signer of Declaration of Independence, member of
CONTINENTAL CONGRESS (1774-81), governor of Massachusetts
(1794-97). A radical, he was among the more extreme spokes-
men for independence from England, after the Revolution, his in-
fluence declined.
Adams, Thomas: 62/87: one of the grantees of the first charter of the
Colony of Massachusetts Bay (1629), he may have been a relative
of Henry ADAMS
Adamses [37/36], 61/85, 64/106 the ADAMS family in the U. S
Adam Street-62/93: street in central London
Ade du Lesterplatz: 80/79. pun. (Ger) ade du, (Fr) adieu farewell
Leicester Square, from British war song, Tipperary.
Ade du Piccadilly 80/79: pun: farewell Piccadilly, see entry above
Adelphi: 62/93. the Adelphi Hotel, the Strand, London.
Adelphi:' 74/12:
a destra:76/35 (It) to the right
Adet:62/94: Pierre-August, 1763-1834, French envoy to U. S. (1795)
with rank of minister plenipotentiary.
Adige: 4/16; 42/7: river in Italy.
Adolf:38/41 see Adolphe SCHNEIDER.
Adonis:23/109; 47/30, 32, 33: a youth loved by APHRODITE; when he
was killed by a boar, she caused the anemone to spring from his
blood. Adonis is the central figure in a number of fertility rites
and myths which celebrate his death and survival, TAMMUZ 1S
the Babylonian equivalent of Adonis. (See Bion, Lament for
Adonis; Ovid, Metamorphoses, X).
Ad Orcum autem quisquam? / nondum nave nigra pervenit 39/45-
(L) But (has) anyone (yet been) to Hell? has not yet come in a
black ship. (See: Odyssey, X, 502).
ad posteros: 74/16: (L) to posterity.
Adrian: 67/135: Adrian IV, d.1159, the first and only English Pope
(1154-59)
Adriatic:83/110: the Adriatic Sea.
[Aeetes]:17/79: king of Colchis, brother of CIRCE and father of
Medea.
AEGEAN
[4]
Aegean: 16/72. the Aegean Sea
Aegesta 67/139. town of NW coast of Sicily, said to have been found-
ed by the Trojans, called Egesta or Aegesta by the Greeks, now
called Alcamo.
Aegeus: 6/ 21: legendary king of Athens, father of THESEUS.
Aemelia. 30/148. Emilia, district in N Italy.
Aeneas74/13 the Trojan, hero of the Aeneid; his descendants were
the legendary founders of Rome, son of ANCHISES and APHRO-
DITE
Aeneas, this 10/46 see Aeneas Silvius PICCOLOMINI.
Aeolus 20/92 the keeper of the winds.
aere perennius 83/112 (L) more enduring than bronze. (See. Hor-
ace, Odes, III, 30).
Aeschylus-82/101 525-456 the Atheman tragic poet.
Aesop's Fables 32/8
Aethelbert 67/133: 616 AD, King of Kent, organized a code of laws
based on Roman law and on the code of INA
affatigandose per suo piacere o no/ non gli manchera la provixione
mai 8/29, [21/97]: (It) tiring himself, for his pleasure or not/
he will never need provision. (From a letter of Sigismondo
MALATESTA, see Yriarte, Un Condottiere au XVe Siecle, 381).
Afghans: 38/38: see AMANULLAH.
Africa 7/25.
africanus 80/91 (L) from Africa.
Agada. 77/43: locality in African Sudan, now Agadez; first stop of
the FASA in the reincarnation of WAGADU. (See. Frobenius and
Fox, African Genesis, 97-110).
Agatha 80/91. Saint Agatha, 3rd century Sicilian virgin, martyred
by Decius.
Agathos 33/11 (Gr) good, well-born. (See: Appendix A).
Agen, la Duchesse d': 65/118: see la Duchesse d'AYEN.
agit considerate: 53/17: (L) he leads with deliberation. (See: A.
Lacharme, Confucu Chi-King, III, 3, ode 9, stanza 3).
Agnesina. 24/113 d. C. 1430, a matron of Modena who, apparently, had
committed adultery and poisoned her husband, under the edict
(1425) of Niccolo d'ESTE, she was beheaded.
"A good governor IS as wind over grass" 53/12: from Analects, XII,
XIX.
Agostino: 40; 20/90: see Agostino di DUCCIO.
Agresti 76/30: Signora Olivia Rossetti Agresti, daughter of William
Michael Rossetti; living in Rome, Signora Agresti has for years
been writing on 20th century economic problems.
Agsterburg wal:69/149: Agsterburg Wall, located in Amsterdam.
a guisa de leon. quando S1 posa: 32/9: (It) as a lion does
when he
rests (See Purgatorio, 6, 66).
Ahama: 56/50: (Ahma), d. 1282 AD, minister of KUBLAI KHAN, used
his power to enrich himself; alarmed at his excesses, several
members of the court, led by OUANG-TCHU, formed a conspir-
acy and assassinated him.
Ah Monsieur
vous allez raser une toile?:80/84: (Fr) Ah, Sir,
are you going to shave (destroy?) a *canvas ?
[5]
ALUMLING
Ah, voui, Vive le Ro1. 34/16 (Fr) Ah, yeah, long live the King.
Ailas e que'm fau miey huelh/ Quar no vezon so qu'ieu vuelh 29/144:
(Pr) Alas, that my eyes avail me not/ For they see not what I
wish (See Sordello, Ailas, e quem fau miey huelh, Cesare de
Lollis, Vita e Poesie di Sordello di Goito, 196).
ainé 29/141, 57/60- (Fr) eldest
Ainley 77/47 poss a cat, whose name may have been derived from
Henry Ainley (1879-1945), British actor. (See. Letters, 336)
A1ul1pata.56/52- (Ayuli Palpata), personal name of Emperor GIN-
TSONG.
Akers 38/37 poss. Vickers, Sons and Co , or Vickers-Maxim Co.,
British munitions firms.
akouta. 56/47 (Mongolian) term for chief of the NUTCHE Tartars
Akouta 55/45 (Akuta) 1069-1123, chieftain of the KIN Tartars. In
1114 he rebelled from the Léao (Liao) dynasty of the KHITAN Tar-
tars and entered into an agreement with Emperor HOEI-TSONG,
he attacked the Léao, and then invaded the Empire, forcing Hoe1-
tsong off the throne The Kin withdrew to Peiping, which they
made their capital
Akra 40/4 town on Atlantic coast of North Africa, founded by
HANNO, just south of GUTTA.
A Lady asks me.. 36/27-29 from Cavalcant1, Donna mi prega.
(See. Translations, 132-141).
a la marina 74/21. (Sp) in the naval manner.
à l'Amitié. 30/83 (Fr) to Friendship.
à la Valtur10:54/29 (Fr) in the manner of VALTURIO.
à la Wörg1:78/60: (Fr) in the manner of WORGL.
Alberic 29/141,142 see Alberic da ROMANO.
Albert.19/86,8 Prince Albert, 1819-61, Prince Consort of England,
husband of VICTORIA.
Albert: 24/114. see Alberto d'ESTE.
Albert:9/38. see Leon Battista ALBERTI.
Albert19/38- Leon Battista, 1404-72, Italian architect, designer of
the TEMPIO.
Albigenses:74/7: a religious sect of S France in the Middle Ages,
although officially designated as Christian heretics, they were
adherents of a form of Manichaeism. The Albigenses appeared
in the 11th century, in 1208 Innocent III proclaimed the Albigensi-
an Crusade to stamp them out, and, by 1233, the Albigenses were
finished.
Albigeois: 74/4: (Fr) the ALBIGENSES.
Albizz1: 26/125 a Florentine family of the late 14th century, mem-
bers of the Parte Guelfa.
alcalde: 67/140: (Sp) chief administrator.
Alcazar: 81/95: prob. Alcázar de San Juan, town in Ciudad-Real
province, central Spain.
Alcides: 82/101: error for ATREIDAES. (See: Aeschylus, Agamem-
non, I, 3).
Alcmene: 74/9, 21, 76/30: the wife of Amphitryon, Zeus loved her
and visited her in the shape of her husband; by Zeus she bore
HERACLES, by Amphitryon, Iphicles. ODYSSEUS sees her in
ALDOBRANDINO
[6]
the underworld. (See Odyssey, XI, 266).
[Aldobrandino, Jgo]:24/110,112 1405-25, bastard son of Niccolo
d'ESTE and stepson of Parisina MALATESTA, he and Parisina
were beheaded when Niccoló discovered their adultery.
Aldous 30/148. see Aldus MANUTIUS.
Aldovrandino: 24/112. see Ugo ALDOBRANDINO
Alessandria: 80/88 see ALEXANDRIA.
Alessandro. 5/19, 7/27, 8/28, 84/117(?): see Alessandro de'MEDICI.
Alessandro 9/37 see Alessandro SFORZA.
Aletha 17/78 prob an invention, a sea deity.
Alex-9/35: see Alessandro SFORZA.
Alexander 32/7 see ALEXANDER I.
Alexander 44/17 see ALEXANDER III
Alexander. 80/90. Cicely Henrietta, who sat for WHISTLER's
Arrangement in Gray and Green.
[Alexander I ] 32/7, 34/15 1777-1825, emperor of Russia (1801-25)
during the Napoleonic wars.
[Alexander III] 44/17 Orlando Bandinelli, d.1181, Pope (1159-81).
[Alexander VI]-30/149. Rodrigo BORGIA, 1431-1503, Pope (1492-
1503).
Alexandria:14/62, [80/88]. the Egyptian city
Alexi:35/23:
Alf 20/91. see ALFONSO.
Alfonso8/28, 9/35, 10/46 Alfonso V (Alfonso the Magnunimous)
1396-1458, King of Aragon and Sicily (1416-58) and of Naples
(1443-58). Sigismondo MALATESTA fought for Alfonso against
Venice and Florence, but later changed sides.
[Alfonso] 20/91 character in Lope de Vega's play, Las Almenas
de Toro, brother of King SANCHO. (See Spirit of Romance, 191-
193).
Alfonso:30/148: see Alfonso d'ESTE.
Alfred: 38/41 see Alfred Perrrot DESEILLIGNY.
Algernon: 82/101: see Algernon Charles SWINBURNE.
Algiaptou 56/52: prob. AIULIPATA, Emperor GIN-TSONG, who
ruled 1311-20 and who did honor to CONFUCIUS by restoring the
ceremonies (1313) instituted to honor him.
Alhambra:74/25: the famous group of buildings above Granada,
Spain.
Alice: 77/48: poss. Alice of Montpellier, see VENTADOUR, LADY
OF.
aliofants: 9/40: reference is to the elephant motifs in the TEMPIO.
Aliscans.80/90 the Alyscamps or Aleschans, necropolis of Arles,
France. (See. Inferno, 9, 112).
Alix:6/22: Alais Capet, second daughter of LOUIS VII; betrothed to
RICHARD I of England, 6 January 1169; in 1191 Richard was re-
leased from this agreement and her dowry was returned.
alixantos, aliotrephes, eiskatebaine; 23/107: (Gr) worn by the sea,
feeding in the sea (sea-reared), he went down into. (See: Ap-
pendix A).
alla fuente florida; 76/34: (It) to the (Sp) flowery fountain.
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AMENDMENT
"alla" non "della":78/56. (It) "to the, not "of the". (Reference 1S
to the statement in the PROGRAMMA DI VERONA è un diritto
alla proprietà, it IS a right to property).
alla terra abbandonata:7 78/56 (It) to the abandoned earth
Allegre: 80/79: poss. Montallegro, a hill above RAPALLO, Italy.
Allingham 79/63 DTC, Pisa.
Alma-Tadema: 80/86 Sir Lawrence, 1836-1912, English painter.
[Almeida, Don Joas Theolomica de] 65/122- envoy extraordinary
of Portugal at the Paris Treaty Conference, 1782
Alphonse le roy d'Aragon-9/35 (Fr) ALFONSO, king of Aragon.
Al poco giorno ed al gran cerchio d'ombra: 5/20 (It) at the dim day-
light and at the large circle of shadow. (See Dante, Canzoniere,
Sestina I, 1).
Altaforte: 80/87. castle in Lemousin, 20 miles NE of Periguex,
France. The castle of Bertran de Born. Also poss. reference
to Pound's poem, "Sestina: Altaforte, 11 hence, as adverb, loud-
ly, riotously, belligerently.
Althea: 81/97: reference to the Althea in Lovelace's poem, "To Al-
thea from Prison": And my divine Althea brings / To whisper at
the grates; also poss. reference to Althea, mother of MELEAG-
ER, who destroyed him by burning a fated log on her grates.
al triedro: 78/61: (It) in the corner
A Lume Spento: 76/38 title of Pound's first book of verse, published
in Venice, 1908. (It) with tapers quenched; at extinguished light.
(See: Purgatorio 3, ,132).
Alviano 5/20: Ser Bartolomeo d', 1455-1515, a general of the Orsi-
nis, suspected for a time of the murder of Giovanni BORGIA.
[Alvise, G10vann1]:9/38. son of Luigi ALVISE.
[Alvise, Luigi]:9/37 carpenter on the TEMPIO.
Alwidge:9/37: see Luigi ALVISE.
Alwise9/38: see Giovanni ALVISE.
à Madame la veuve de M. Henry Schorn/ op de Agsterburg wal by
de Hoogstraat: 69/149. (Fr) to Madame, the widow of M. Henry
SCHORN/ (Dut) up near the AGSTERBURG wall in the HOOG-
STRAAT.
[Amanullah ]:38/38: 1892-
,
emir (1919-26) and king (1926-29) of
Afghanistan, called Amanullah Khan, made treaties with Russia
and Great Britain at Geneva (19 21).
Amari-11:79/62: (It) Amaryllis, prob. associated in Pound's mind
with a song heard at Salzburg.
a marito subtraxit ipsam
/ dictum Sordellum concubuisse:
(L) she withdrew herself from her husband. . / SORDELLO said
to have lain with (her). (See: Rolandini, V, 3 in Chabaneau,
Les Biographies des Troubadours, 315).
Ambassador: 66/126: the ambassador mentioned in John Adams,
Works, III, 392.
Ambassador (french): 34/15: see Armand Augustin-Louis de CAUL-
AINCOURT.
Ambassador Manchester:65/125 see George MONTAGU.
Ambrosiana: 20/89: the Ambrosian Library in Milan.
amendment Number XVIII.78/59: see EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT.
AMERICA
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America. 21/98, 31/5, 34/16, 50/41, 62/93, 64/101, 102, 105, 65/110, 112,
113, 114, 116, 119, 122, 125, 66/126, 129, 67/139,140; 68/141, 143, 145, 147,
69/151, 70/156, 71/165, 166, 80/78
America del Sud 38/37: (Sp) South America.
American, the: 84/118: see Harry S. TRUMAN.
American Army.77/49 the American Army of Occupation in Italy,
1945.
American civil war: 48/35.
American Curia 22/101: prob. the U.S. Congress.
[American Indians] 31/5.
American Legislature 65/110: the CONTINENTAL CONGRESS.
Américas, Las:80/72: bazaar in Madrid, Spain.
Ames, Fisher 69/153: 1758-1808, member of the House of Represent-
atives (1789-97), where he was a supporter of the financial poli-
cies of Alexander HAMILTON
Amherst 71/160 Lord Jeffrey, 1717-97, English general, commanded
at the capture of Cape Breton from the French (1758), took Ticon-
deroga (1759), made commander-in-chief of British forces in
America (1759).
Amiens: 66/126: manufacturing city of Somme department, N France.
ammassi 53/8, 56/49, 61/81: (It) piles (of things), grain pools. (Sec.
What 1S Money For?, 13).
amo ergo sum: 80/71.(L) I love, therefore I am.
Amphion-62/95: a musician, so excellent that he drew stones after
him with the music of his lyre.
Amphitrite: 32/7. French ship belonging to BEAUMARCHAIS; car-
ried supplies to the colonists during the Revolutionary War.
Amsterdam-62/92 93, 65/121, 68/146, 147, 148; 69/149, 150, 151, [152];
70/158: the Dutch city, John ADAMS served there as American
minister to the Netherlands (1780).
Amur: 59/73: river in NE Asia, forming the boundary between Man-
churia and the Chita region and Khabarovsk Territory of the USSR.
Anacreon: 83/113: fl. 521 BC, the Greek lyric poet.
Anafeste: 67/140. Paul Luc, d. 717 AD, early tribune of Venice and
first Doge, reputed to have been a just magistrate.
Anastasia: 80/91: Saint Anastasia, 4th century Roman noblewoman
martyred under DIOCLETIAN.
Anatoth: 74/18. a city of BENJAMIN, home of JEREMIAH.
Anaxiforminges: 4/13: (Gr) Lords of the lyre. (See: Appendix A).
Anchises: 23/109; 74/13, 76/34: father of AENEAS.
Ancona:8/31; 26/127: the Italian city.
Ancures: 20/91: companion of SANCHO in Lope de Vega's play, Las
Almenas de Toro.
"and all their generation":74/11: from Ford Madox Ford, The Three-
Ten.
and belt the citye quahr of nobil fame: 78/56: from Gavin Douglas,
Aeneid. (See: Literary Essays, 245).
And by the beach-run, Tyro,...: 2/6: from Odyssey, XI, 235-59.
Andiamo:15/66: (It) let's go.
Andre:77/50- see Andre SPIRE.
Andromeda: 52/5; [55/41]: a constellation, between Pegasus and
[9]
ANTONINUS
Perseus, in the northern skies, represented as a chained woman.
and the greatest 1S charity 74/12 see I Corinthians 13, 13.
And then went down to the ship 1/3-5. from Odyssey, XI, 1-104.
(See Literary Essays, 259-264).
and the pleasure of having it hot:83/112. poss. variation of T. S.
Eliot, The Waste Land, II, 167. to get the beauty of it hot.
Angelico.45/24 51/44, 76/40: Giovanni da Fiesole, Fra Angelico,
1387-1455, Florentine painter.
angelos12/54- (Gr) messenger
Angevins-10/46. members of two medieval dynasties which originat-
ed in France. The older house issued from Fulk, who became
Count of ANJOU in the 10th century, the second house was a
branch of the Capetians and began with Charles, younger brother
of Louis IX of France. Text reference IS to Rene of Anjou, who
became Duke of Anjou in 1434 and sought control of Naples and
Sicily.
Angleterre 18/82: (Fr) ENGLAND.
Angliae: 67/135 (L) ENGLAND.
Angold: 84/115 J. P., 1909-1943, British poet; killed in World War
II.
animae 74/16. (L) of the soul.
Anjou. 36/30: region and former duchy of W France.
Annam 56/50. section of Vietnam.
Annapolis: 31/3 port in Maryland, seat of the CONTINENTAL CON-
GRESS (1783-84).
Anne: 66/129 1665-1714, Queen of England (1702-1714).
Anne, Lady:80/93. prob. Lady Anne Blunt, wife of W. S. BLUNT.
anno seidic1:52/ (It) sixteenth year (of Era Fascista. 1938).
anno undecesimo.59/70: (It) eleventh year
a noi:58/69. (It) ours.
anonimo:74/4 (It) anonymous.
[Anor].6/21: daughter of the Countess of Chatellerault, mother
of ELEANOR of Aquitaine.
Anschluss:38/39, 50/41: political merger of two countries, particu-
larly, the merger (1938) of Austria and Germany.
Anselm, Meyer:74/17: see Mayer Amschel ROTHSCHILD.
Antares: 52/5: the principal star of Scorpio, called Scorpio's Heart.
ante mortem no scortum: 76/33. (L) before death no prostitute.
Antheil:74/5 George, 1900-
, American composer and pianist.
(See. Antheil and the Treatise on Harmony).
Anticlea 1/4, 5: wife of Laertes and mother of ODYSSEUS. (See:
Odyssey, XI, 84-85, 152-153).
Anti-Hellene.9/34 see Parcellio PANDONE.
Antille, Nicolo de:42/6; 43/15: Niccolò dell' Antella, Auditore of
the BALIA of Siena, 1622.
Antioch: 60/76: ancient city on the Orontes, Turkey.
Antis:70/156: anti-Federalists, opposed to the adoption of the U. S.
Constitution; followers of Thomas JEFFERSON.
Antoninus: 42/3;46/28;78/57. Antoninus Pius, 86-161, Roman Emper-
or (138-161), administered the empire with ability, kept the peace,
and carried out an extensive building program.
ANTWERP
[10]
Antwerp 71/163. the Belgian city.
Antzar55/46 Antsar, fl 1231, Mongolian general serving under
Emperor OGOTAI KHAN during the great Mongol campaigns
against the KIN Tartars in Honan province.
Ao1.79/68; 81/97: an expression of uncertain meaning; it occurs 172
times in the Oxford manuscript of the Chanson de Roland, gener-
ally following the last line of a laisse. (See T. Atkinson Jenkins'
edition of the poem, Boston, 1924, p. 4, for comment).
Apaoki 55/39 see YE-LIU-APAOKI.
Apaoki- 55/39. see YE-LIU-TE-KOUANG
apaoki. 56/47: (Mongolian) term for the chief of the KHITAN Tartars.
Apeliota 47/32, 74/16, 21, 22, 27: the East Wind.
Aphrodite-1/5 24/111, [27/131; 74/8, 22], 76/[34,36], 37, 40, [77/
46], 79/[67,6 68], 69,70, [80/79, 88, 89, 81/95, 82/103, 84/116]. the
goddess of love, beauty and fertility. Born of blood and the sea
foam (from which comes her name), she was the mother of
AENEAS, lover of ADONIS and ANCHISES in the various Greek
legends in which she appears In Cyprus especially she was
worshipped, with Adonis, as goddess of fertility. (See: Homeric
HYMN V; see also VENUS).
Apollo [4/13], 20/94, [21/99], 24/114; [29/145]; 77/49; 84/116.
Phoebus Apollo, Olympian god of light, music, prophecy and
pastoral matters.
Apovitch 12/55:
Aquabello, Enricho de 11/52. Enrico Acquadelli, steward to Sigis-
mondo MALATESTA
aqua morta:16/69. (It) dead water.
aquarelle: 26/127 water color.
Aquinas 36/29: Saint Thomas, 1225-74, scholastic philosopher and
Doctor of the Church, author of the Summa Theologiae.
Aquitain:6/2 67/135: Aquitaine, once a duchy and kingdom in SW
France, established as kingdom by Charlemagne, it became a
duchy under the Counts of Potters; in the late 9th century, it
came under the control of William, count of Auvergne. The
marriage of ELEANOR of Aquitaine to HENRY II of England gave
England claim to Aquitaine and led to the Hundred Years War.
Arabia Petra. 74/22. Arabia Petraea (Rocky Arabia), the NW part
of Arabia, including the Sinai Peninsula; not part of modern
Arabia.
arachidi- 74/26: (It) peanuts.
Arachne: 74/24; 76/39: the girl who challenged ATHENA to a weav-
ing contest, because the girl dared to contest the gods, Athena
changed her into a spider so she should weave forever; hence, a
spider.
[Aragon] :8/28; 9/35: the medieval kingdom in N Iberian peninsula.
Arambo:40/49: Arambys, a town on the Atlantic coast of N Africa,
founded by HANNO, just south of MELI.
aram nemus vult (aram vult nemus) 74/24; 78/59; 79/70: (L) the
grove needs an altar.
Arbia:77/51: river in the vicinity of Siena.
Archbishop:- 44/19: see Anton-Felice ZONDADARI.
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ARS
Archbish of Antioch: 60/76: see Charles-Thomas Maillard de
TOURNON.
Archbishop of Morea Lower 26/123. Orthodox delegate to the Coun-
cil of Ferrara-Florence (1438-45). (See: MOREA).
Archbishop of Salzburg 26/128: see Graf Hieronhymus Joseph
COLLOREDO.
Archbishop of Sardis. 26/123 Orthodox delegate to the Council of
Ferrara-Florence (1438-45). (See: SARDIS).
Archbishops of Athens, Corinth and of Trebizond 26/123. Orthodox
delegates to the Council of Ferrara-Florence (1438-45). (See.
ATHENS, CORINTH, TREBIZOND).
Archivio Storico La Guerra der Senesi col conte di Pitigliano:10/
42. (It) Historical Archives The War of the Sienese against the
Count of PITIGLIANO.
Archon 68/141 the chief magistrate of Athens.
Arcturus-77/43 chief star of the constellation Boötes.
Arena: 4/16, 29/145, 78/59 see DIOCLETIAN'S ARENA.
Arena romana.12/53 see DIOCLETIAN'S ARENA.
Arezzo44/19, 50/43, 76/40: city in central Italy.
Arezzo, Gul d' 79/65 Guido d'Arezzo, ?995-1050? Benedictine
monk and musician, supposed to be inventor of the medieval
"great scale" or gamut, the hexacord, and hexacord solmization.
Argicida:1/ 5. see HERMES.
arguendo-67/133. (It) accusing.
Arimino:9/37, 24/111: (It) RIMINI.
Ariminum.9/36: (L) RIMINI.
Aristotle:36/29; 73/19, 74/22- 384-322, the Greek philosopher.
Arlechino.77/48: (It) harlequin.
[Arles 80/86- town in Provence, France.
Arli:80/86: (It) ARLES.
Armenonville. 74/14, 76/31, 78/58: Pavillon d'Armenonville, fashion-
able restaurant in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris.
[Armour ]:33/14: Chicago meatpacking firm, among those investi-
gated by Upton Sinclair for his novel, The Jungle (1906).
Armstrong 80/91: DTC, Pisa.
Army:65/111: see CONTINENTAL ARMY.
Arnaut:6/21, 20/89, 29/145: see Arnaut DANIEL.
Arno77/48,51- river in Tuscany, central Italy.
Arnold:69/153. Benedict, 1741-1801, American army officer and
traitor; in the Revolutionary War, he received the rank of briga-
dier general in the Continental Army. In 1779 he began corre-
spondence with the British forces and in 1780, while he command-
ed West Point, he arranged for the surrender of the fort to the
British. The plot was discovered and Arnold fled to British pro-
tection.
arpens: 61/83: (Fr) acres.
Arrarat: 34/21: Mount Ararat in Turkey, identified as the landing
place of Noah's Ark.
arriba: 62/96: (Sp) hail!
Arry:74/22: see ARISTOTLE.
Ars Amandi:63/98 (L) The Art of Love. (See: OVID).
ARTEMIS
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Artemis. [4/14], 30/147, [148(?), 35/25]; 76/35, 36(?); 79/70: the
goddess of wildlife and the hunt. See ACTAEON
Arthur:80/89 see Arthur SYMONS.
arti.80/75: (It) guilds.
"a S. Bartolomeo m1 vidi col pargoletto, / Chiodato a terra colle
braccie aperte/ in forma di croce gemisti. / diss'10: Io son' la
luna. "/ Co1 piedi sulla falce d'argento/ m1 parve di pietosa
sembianza:80/78: (It)" at St. Bartholomeo I found myself with
the little boy/ nailed to the ground with his arms spread/ as on
the cross, (you) groaned/ I said: I am the moon. "/ With my
feet on the silvery scythe/ he looked pitiful to me.
Ascension: 25/116 Ascension Day, fortieth day after Easter.
a schavezo. 35/25: (It) a scavezzo: quickly, hurriedly, at wholesale
price.
Asia:61/85.
Aso iqua me.28/133 prob. (It: Romagna dialect) It's me
Asquith 77/47. Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and As-
quith, 1852-1928, British statesman; Prime Minister (1908-16).
[Asquith, Margot].38/38(?); 80/71: 1864-1945, second wife of
Herbert Henry ASQUITH.
assez mal propre: 59/72. (Fr) rather slovenly. (See: Mailla, His-
toire Générale, XI, 113, note).
Assisi: 74/26, 79/64 town in Umbria, central Italy; birth place of
St. Francis of Assisi; above the Saint's tomb, two Gothic church-
es were built, both decorated with frescoes by Cimabue, Giotto,
and others.
Astafieva. 79/62, Serafima, 1876-1934, Russian dancer and teach-
er, member of the corps de ballet of the Maryinsky Theatre
(1895-1905) and of the Diaghilev Company (1909-1911), opened a
ballet school in London.
Astor:34/17 John Jacob, 1763-1848, American merchant and fur
trader.
Astorga. 65/120: town in León province, NW Spain.
Asturias: 65/121: mountain region, NW Spain.
as under the rain altars:78/59: from Analects, XII, xxi, 1.
atasal:76/36,37: the word is said to mean "union with God" and to
come from the writings of Avicenna, the Mohammedan physician
and philosopher.
Atchen (Atkins) Chelisa: 54/32: see CHE-POU-KIU-ATCHEN.
Atesten 20/91. commune in NE Italy. (See: ESTE).
Athame: 21/100: prob. inv.: a daughter of the Sun. (See: PHAE-
THUSA).
Athelstan: 48/36: AEthelstan, d.940, king of the English (924-40).
Athena:17/77,78 21/99; 74/16]; 76/39; 78/57; 79/64: the goddess
of wisdom, Pallas Athena; patron of the arts of peace and of war;
guardian of cities, especially of ATHENS.
Athenae: 74/16: see ATHENS.
Athens: 26/123; 43/12; 46/28; 74/18: the Greek city.
A tiels leis en ancien scripture: 31/6: (Pr) according to such
laws
(Fr) in old handwriting.
A traverso le foglie:39/46: (It) through the leaves.
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AUSTORS
Atreides. 8/32, [82/101]: Atreidaes, sons of ATREUS.
Atreus.77/49 king of Mycenae, son of Pelops, who brought a curse
on his house. Thyestes, Atreus' brother, seduced Atreus' wife,
Atreus murdered three of the four sons of Thyestes and served
them to their father. Thyestes laid a curse on the house of
Atreus, which descended upon his sons, Agamemnon, Menelaus.
atrox Ming, atrox finis-58/68- (L) frightful MING, frightful end.
Atthis 5/18: poss one of the young girls of whom SAPPHO sang,
prob. Attis, a priest of Cybele, who castrated himself in a fit of
religious fanaticism. (See. Catullus, LXIII)
Atti, Antonio degli 9/40 fl 1448, brother of Isotta degli ATTI
Atti, Isotta degli9/38, 39, 41, 20/94, 74/8,26 [76/30, 37, 40 ?1430-
1470, first the mistress, then the third wife (1456) of Sigismondo
MALATESTA. She bore him at least two sons, both illegitimate
SALLUSTIO (b. 1448) and Valerien (b. 1454). It was in her honor
that Malatesta built the TEMPIO.
Attlee79/64 Clement Richard, 1883-
,
British statesman; lead-
er of the Labor Party, Prime Minister (1945-51).
Aubeterre. 76/33, 80/87: a church just outside Potters, France.
Auchmuty 64/105 Robert, d. 1788, colonial jurist and loyalist, ap-
pointed judge of the vice-admiralty for Massachusetts and New
Hampshire. With John ADAMS, he was counsel for Captain
PRESTON in the case of the Boston Massacre (1770). He re-
turned to England in 1776.
auctor 79/65. (L) author.
Au douce temps de pascor 54/22 (Fr) in the fair Eastertime (See:
Jo1os of Tolosa Lautrier el dous temps de pascor)
auf dem Wasser: 34/15 (Ger) on the water
augean stables. 74/17: the stables of Augeas, king of Elis, cleansed
by HERACLES.
Augusta: 41/55. one of the three principal characters in Rene
CREVEL's Les Pieds dans le plat (1933), where she 1S an Austri-
an archduchess.
Augusta Victoria. 41/53: see VICTORIA
Augustine:16/68: Saint Augustine, 354-430.
Augustus: 80/80 BC 63-14 AD, first Roman emperor (BC 27-14 AD).
Aula regum: 67/133. Aula Regis, the chief court of England during
early Norman times. The single court split into four parts the
High Court of Chancery, the Queen's Bench, the Exchequer, and
the Court of Common Pleas.
aulentissima rosa fresca:79/64 (It) thou sweetly-smelling fresh
red rose. (See: Ciullo d'Alcamo, Dialogue, the first line of
which runs: Rosa fresca aulentissima).
Aunt F. :80/86; 84/117: Aunt Frank, great aunt (by marriage) of
Ezra Pound, she took him to Europe when he was a child.
Aurelia 76/30: the Aurelian Way (Via Aurelia), the Roman highway
which runs along the coast to Pisa and then north to Genoa.
Aurunculeia: 4/13, 15; 5/17: Vinia Aurunculeia, a bride praised by
Catullus. (See: Catullus, LXI).
Austini, Marcellus: 42/8: prob. member of the Sienese BALÍA, 1622.
Austors. 23/108: see Austors de MAENSAC.
AUSS'RALIA
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Auss'ralia: 74/5 Australia.
Austria: 16/71; 32/9; 38/38, 41; 50/42; 80/71.
Authority comes from right reason. 36/29: from Johannes Scotus
ERIGENA, De Divisione Naturae, I, chapter 69.
Auvergnat: 5/18; 23/109: see AUVERGNE.
Auvergne: 23/109: a section of Provence, SE central France.
Auxerre: 34/16; 77/45- capital of Yonne department, NE central
France.
avenément révolution allemande posait des problèmes nouveaux, /
routine commercial être remplacée par création de deux/fonds or
et blé destinés au proletariat victorieux (allemand) 33/13: (Fr)
beginning German revolution posed some new problems, / com-
mercial routine to be replaced by the creation of two/ funds (of)
gold and wheat destined to the victorious (German) proletariat.
Avernus.1/4 lake near Cumae and Naples, close to it was the cave
by which AENEAS descended to the lower world, sometimes, as
here, used as the name of the lower world itself.
Avignon 21/96, 78/55, 80/87: capital of Vaucluse department, SE
France, on the left bank of the Rhone, was the Papal See during
the "Babylonian Captivity" (1309-78) and residence of several
antipopes during the Great Schism (1378-1408), under Papal rule,
it became a great trading city
avoyer. 67/140: (Fr) chief magistrate of a free city or a canton in
French Switzerland.
Awol 77/43. the Lady Aw01, first wife of GENJI in Lady Murasaki's
Tale of Genji. Also: character in the Noh play, Awoi no Uye.
(See. Translations, 323-331).
Axon. 35/23:
[Ayen, la Duchesse d']-65/118: prob. Henriette-Anne-Louse d'Ag-
uesseau de Fresne, Duchesse d'Ayen, wife of Jean-Paul-François
de NOAILLES.
Ayers, Severn.64/106. member of the Virginia House of Burgesses
in 1770.
Ayliffe.70/157 John, 1676-1732, English jurist and writer on law.
Azeglio: 50/43: Massimo Taparelli, the Marchesse d'Azeglio, 1798-
1866, Italian statesman and author, leader in the Risorgimento
(1848); assisted early liberal reforms of PIUS IX, with whom he
joined in support of the House of Savoy.
Azores. 28/140: the islands in the Atlantic.
B
Baastun 65/121 see BOSTON.
Baastun Gazette 66/128, 67/133: see BOSTON GAZETTE.
babao. 74/17: (It) bugbear.
Babylon 15/66, 74/15, 76/31, the ancient city.
Bacchus78/59 see DIONYSUS.
Bach, Johnnie 59/72, 80/82,88: Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750, the
German organist and composer.
Bacher 74/26 prob pseudonym for an inhabitant of Gais, near Bru-
nico, in the Italian Tyrol.
Bacon, Baldy 12/53. Francis S. Bacon, fl. 1910, American business
man
Bacon, Lord 64/102, 77/47. Sir Francis, 1st Baron Verulam, 1561-
1626, English philosopher and statesman.
Baghdad. 56/49, 74/22 city in Iraq, on the Tigris river. The Ger-
mans once projected a railroad from Berlin to Baghdad.
Bagni Romagna: 78/60. Bagno di Romagna, commune in Forli prov-
ince, N Italy
Bagot 34/17 Sir Charles, 1781-1843, British diplomat, minister to
the U S. (1815-20) when he negotiated the Rush-Bagot Convention
(1817) limiting armaments on the Great Lakes.
[Bahai, Sir Abdul Baha ] 46/26- 1844-1921, leader of the religion
known as Bahaism, founded by his father Baha Ullah. Bahaists
believe in the unity of all religions, universal education, world
peace and the equality of sexes
Bailey 42/ 3, 4, 5, 6, 43/9, 12, 13,14,16 see BALIA.
baily 40/51 bail, the outer wall of a feudal castle, or the courtthere-
by enclosed.
Baker 40/48 George Fisher, 1840-1931, American financier and phil-
anthropist, one of the founders (1863) of the First National Bank of
New York, president of the bank in 1877, chairman of its board of
directors in 1909, he was closely associated with the house of
MORGAN.
balascio36/29: (It) a variety of ruby
baldacchino. [8/31], 52/4: (It) canopy.
baldachino. 8/31 see BALDACCHINO.
Baldy:12/53. see Baldy BACON.
Balfour. 46/26 Arthur James, 1848-1930, British statesman; foreign
minister (1916-1919), author of the Balfour Declaration which
pledged British support to the founding of a Jewish state in Pale-
stine.
Balia: [42/3, 4, 5, 6; 43/9], 10, [12, 13, 14, 16]: (It) authority, power,
bench of magistrates, here the reference 1S to the Balia, ruling
authority of SIENA in the early 17th century.
Balista 26/124: (It) catapult.
Baluba: 38/39, 53/10; 74/12,14, 77/43: name of a tribe (and of the place
of residence) in the upper valley of the Kassai river, a tributary of
the Congo, in the SW Belgian Congo.
banco di giro42/3. (It) a bank specializing in the endorsement and
transfer of credit
BANCROFT
[16]
Bancroft-65/118, 69/153. Edward, 1744-1821, American scientist and
secret agent; during the American Revolution he served as a se-
cret agent for the American commissioners in Paris, it was al-
leged that he sold information to the British government.
Bandini: 44/21 poss. Carlo Bandini, author of Roma e la nobilita r'o-
mana nel tramonto del secolo XVIII (1914).
Banditore, 11.43/12: (It) the public cryer.
Bank. 37/32, 33, 34, 35, 36. see SECOND NATIONAL BANK OF THE
UNITED STATES
Bank:43/13: see MONTE DEI PASCHI.
Bank: 80/92: see BANK OF ENGLAND.
Bankers:80/91 corporal in the Provost section, DTC, Pisa.
Bankhead-84/115 John Hollis, 1872-1946, U. S. Senator from Ala-
bama (1930-46).
Bank of Egypt: 80/88.
Bank of England:37/32; [80/92]: founded 1694 by William PATERSON;
the central bank of England.
Bank of the Paris Union.38/42 La Banque de l'Union Parisienne, an
investment bank founded in 1874 and reorganized in 1904; controlled
by ZAHAROFF and SCHNEIDER-CREUSOT.
Bank president:37/34: see Nicholas BIDDLE.
Baptist learnery:28/136 poss. Baylor University, Waco, Texas, a
Baptist school.
Barabbas 74/5,14 the bandit held in jail at the time of the arrest of
Christ.
Barabello 5/19: a poetaster of the time of Pope Leo X; he asked to be
crowned with laurel in the Capitol; during the mock ceremony the
Pope's elephant, on which Barabello was riding, became fright-
ened by the fireworks and refused to move.
barbarisci 24/110. (It) wild horses (?).
Barbary 69/152. the Barbary States, North Africa. In the Algerine
War (1815) the U. S. forced concessions from the dey of Algiers.
barbiche: 74/25. (Fr) goatee.
Barbier de Séville:65/119 the play by BEAUMARCHAIS, first per-
formed in 1775,
Barbo:11/51. Pietro, 1417-71, Pope Paul II (1464-71).
Bard 80/79: William Shakespeare.
Bard, Jo:81/96 prob. Joseph Bard, 1892-
,
English essayist.
Bariatinsky, Princess: 79/66: prob. Lydia YAVORSKA, 1874-1921,
wife of Prince Vladamir Bariatinsky; poss. Princess Anatole
Marie Bariatinsky, author of My Russian Life (1923).
Barilli: 80/74: Bruno, 1880-1952, Italian music critic and composer.
Barlow: 31/5. Joel, 1754-1812, American writer and diplomat; ap-
pointed U. S. consul to Algiers (1795); he succeeded in releasing
American prisoners and negotiating treaties with Algiers. In 1811
he was sent to Europe to negotiate a commercial treaty with
Napoleon.
[Barney, Matalie ]:80/83; 84/117: 20th century American writerliving
in Paris.
Barre, Mass. 74/25: town in central Massachusetts, NW of Worces-
ter.
[17]
BEARDSLEY
Bartok: 84/116 Bela, 1881-1945, Hungarian composer, pianist and col-
lector of folk music.
Barzun 77/50. Jacques, 1907-
American historian and teacher.
,
Basil77/52; 81/96 see Basil BUNTING.
Basinio 9/34, 82/102: Basinio de Basann, 1425-1457, Italian poet
patronized by Sigismondo MALATESTA, wrote L'Isottaeus, a poem
modeled after Ovid's Heroides, which represents Sigismondo's
love for Isotta degli ATTI (Paris: 1539). In 1456, Basinio defeated
Parcelio PANDONE in a literary debate, Pandone argued for the
thesis' "One may be an elegant Latin poet without having studied
assiduously the Greek authors 11
bassarids 79/66, 68. Thracian maenads.
Basse Cour:65/118: the house in Passy, formerly the Hotel de Val-
entinois, donated to the American ministers (1778) by Donatien le
Ray de CHAUMONT.
Bassier 84/115 DTC, Pisa.
Bastun 62/88, 89 see BOSTON.
Batavia. 60/76 city on NW coast of Java.
[Bathsheba]:8/30: wife of Uriah, the Hittite. David seduced her, had
her husband killed, and then married her out of remorse. She was
the mother of Solomon.
Batsabe 8/30. see BATHSHEBA.
Battista 9/38. see Leon Battista ALBERTI.
battistero 79/62. (It) baptistery, text reference 1S evidently to that of
Pisa.
Battle Hymn of the Republic. 80/76. the famous marching song of the
American Civil War, written in 1861 by Julia Ward Howe.
Battle of Lexington. 64/105; 66/127: see LEXINGTON AND CONCORD,
Battles of
Battle of Waffenschlag-41/54: inv., note: waffe = (Ger) weapon +
schlag = (Ger) strike.
Baur, Wilhelm 41/53 1826-97, author of Geschichte und Lebensbilder
aus der Erneuerung des Religiösen Lebens in Deutschen Befreiung-
skriegen, Hamburg, 1864. (See: IN DEN DEUTSCHEN BEFREUD-
ENSKRIEGEN).
Bayard: 34/16: James Asheton, 1767-1815, American statesman, mem-
ber of the House of Representatives (1797-1803), U. S. Senate
(1804-13), and of the commission which negotiated the Treaty of
Ghent (1814), ending the War of 1812.
Bayard: 65/113. John Bukenheim, 1738-1807, Philadelphia merchant;
colonel in the Philadelphia Volunteers during the Revolution; mem-
ber of the CONTINENTAL CONGRESS (1785-87).
Bayle. 28/139: Pierre, 1647-1706, French philosopher and critic.
Baymont, Tommy 19/86,87: see Thomas LAMONT.
Bay of Naples:54/26.
B.B. C. 76/36: the British Broadcasting Corporation.
bé:54/35: (Fr) well!
Beard, Charles 84/116: Charles Austin, 1874-1948, American histori-
an.
Beardsley, Aubrey. 74/22, 80/89: Aubrey Vincent, 1872-98, English
illustrator and writer
BEARDSLEY, MABEL
[18]
Beardsley, Mabel [80/85], 82/102: 1872-1913, sister of Aubrey
BEARDSLEY.
Bearing the golden bough of Argicida from Homeric Hymn V, To
Aphrodite, 117-118. (Prob. a translation from the Latin version of
Georgius Dartona Cretensis).
Beauchamps: 66/132. Richard de Beauchamp, ? 1430-81, Bishop of
Hereford and Salisbury, Chancellor of the Order of the Garter.
Beaucher, Sergeant. 76/33. DTC, Pisa.
Beaugency: 56/49: town in Loiret department, on the Loire river,
France There 1S an old French song which runs
Orléans, Beaugency!
Notre Dame de Cléry!
Vendôme! Vendôme!
Quel chagrin, quel ennu
De compter toute la nuit
Les heures -- les heures!
Beaumarchais.31/4, 32/7, 65/118; 68/143, 71/161: Pierre Augustin
Caron de, 1732-99, French playwright and man of affairs.
beaute, la 80/98 (Fr) beauty.
Beauties of Mougden. 61/86. the Eulogy on MUKDEN, a poem written
by Emperor KIEN-LONG in 1743 after a visit to Mukden to honor
the tomb of his ancestors.
Beauvais: 34/16: capital of Oise department, N France.
Beccaria: 64/106: Cesare Bolnesana di, ?1735-1794?, Italian econo-
mist and jurist, author of Tratto dei Delitti e della Pene (1764).
Bechstein:79/63: a make of piano.
Becket:67/135 Thomas à Becket, 1117-70, Archbishop of Canterbury
(1162-70); murdered by the agents of Henry II.
Beddoes-80/75,76: Thomas Lovell, 1803-49, the English poet.
Bedell:80/91; 84/115: lieutenant in the Provost section, DTC, Pisa.
Bedlam:68/141: Bethlehem Royal Hospital in London.
Beebe:38/39. William, 1877- , American scientist, explorer and
author, famous for his underwater explorations in the bathysphere.
Beecher:40/48. Henry Ward, 1813-87, American Congregational
preacher, orator and lecturer, held the pulpit of the Plymouth
Church, Brooklyn, New York, from 1847; leader in the Abolition-
1st movement.
Beethoven: 79/63: Ludwig van, 1770-1827, the German composer.
Begin thy plowing
think of plowing:47/31 from Hesiod, Works and
Days, 383-391, 448.
Be glad, poor beaste: 82/103: poss. variation on Chaucer, Balade de
Bon Conseyl, translated by Henry Van Dyke in SPEARE, Pocket
Book of Verse: Therefore, poor beaste
Bekford: 71/167. William Beckford, 1709-1770, West Indian planter;
member of Parliament; alderman and Lord Mayor of London.
Belcher, Governor:64/107: Jonathan, 1682-1757, colonial governor
of Massachusetts and New Hampshire (1730-41); governor of New
Jersey (1747-57).
Bel Fiore.10/43: Belriguardo, a villa of Borso d'ESTE.
Bell, Miss:52/3: Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, 1868-1926, Brit-
ish authority on, and government servant in, the Near East.
[19]
BERDSMA
Bella, Piero della+11/48, [49]: officer in the forces of Sigismondo
MALATESTA. (Note: Pound's description: that gay bird
is a
misreading of his source, which describes Piero della Bella as a
gagliardo, or brave, valiant. See: Tonini, Rimini nella Signoria
de' Malatesti, II, 281, who quotes Pound's source, the Cronaca of
Gaspare Broglio, an unpublished manuscript in the Gambalunga
Library, Rimini).
Belle Poule65/120. a French frigate anchored at Corunna, John
ADAMS dined aboard 24 December 1779,
Bellin, Zuan: 25/120, 45/24, 74/3. see Giovanni BELLINI.
[Bellini, Giovanni]:25/120 45/24, 74/3: 1426-1516, leading painter of
the Venetian school, noted for his altarpieces and Madonnas.
Belotti: 80/79: owner of Belotti's Ristorante Italiano, 12 Old Compton
Street, London, where Pound and his friends dined, 1910-1920.
Belmont: 40/48: August, 1816-1890, American banker and politician;
head of August Belmont and Company.
bel seno (in rimas escarsas, vide sopra):77/47: (It) beautiful bosom
(Pr) (in rare rimes, (It) see above).
bel seno..
copulatrix: 77/48: (It) beautiful bosom
(L) who copulates.
benché:42/4: (It) although.
Benche niuno cantasse: 24/112: (It) although no one was singing.
benecomata dea: [74/15 76/38 (L) the fair-tressed goddess. (See
CIRCE).
Benedetto: 5/19. see Benedetto VARCHI.
[Benedict XIII].61/8 Pope (1724-1730).
benedict184/115: (L) the blessed ones.
Benette joue la Valse des Elfes.27/130. (Fr) Benette plays the Waltz
of the Elves. (See. Francis Jammes, Le Poète).
Bengal:57/57.
Ben:52/3. prob. Benjamin FRANKLIN, poss Benito MUSSOLINI.
Ben.67/134 see Benjamin FRANKLIN.
Ben 74/3 see Benito MUSSOLINI.
[Benckendorff, Aleksandr Konstantinovich].19/87: 1849-1917, Russian
ambassador to London (1903-16).
Benin:81/96- DTC, Pisa.
Benito: 80/73: see Benito MUSSOLINI.
Benjamin 74/18 the plateau of E central Palestine, near the Jordan
river, between Jerusalem and Bethel.
Bennett, Arnold:80/84: Enoch Arnold, 1867-1931, English novelist
Bentinck, Colonel:65/122 Berend Henrik, 1753-1830, one of the
Dutch negotiators of the Treaty of Paris (1783).
Bentinck: 50/43: Lord William Cavendish, 1774-1839, British states-
man and soldier; governor-general of Madras, India (1803-07);