Mary de Rachewiltz

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Mary de Rachewiltz (born July 9, 1925 in Brixen , South Tyrol ) is an Italian - American writer and translator .

Life

Mary de Rachewiltz was born to an American artist couple, the writer Ezra Pound and the violin virtuoso Olga Rudge . However, since Ezra Pound was married to the artist Dorothy Shakespear and a marriage to Olga Rudge was out of the question for both of them, Mary was raised as a foster child by a South Tyrolean farming family in Gais in the Pusteria Valley . Her mother tongue was therefore German (with an unmistakable Tyrolean “Puschtra” dialect coloration ), but she learned English, Italian and French from her birth parents in a private grammar school in Florence . This multilingualism predestined her for her later extensive translation work. Under the guidance of her father, she transcribed a chapter from the 7-volume work by Leo Frobenius Erlebte Continents and excerpts from 'Noh' or Accomplishment by Ernest Fenellosa and Ezra Pound; these first translations were published in 1942.

In 1946 she married Count Boris de Rachewiltz , an Egyptologist of semi-Russian origin who had been brought to South Tyrol by the events of the war; with him she had two children, Siegfried (1947) and Patrizia (1950). In addition to her work as a translator and writer, she mainly took care of the upbringing of her children and the restoration of the Brunnenburg , a medieval castle near Merano, which was acquired together with her husband in 1955 . Pound and Olga Rudge now stayed with her more often, and Pound wrote the last six cantos here .

Mary de Rachewiltz is curator of the "Ezra Pound Archive, Center for the Study of Ezra Pound and His Contemporaries" at the beincke Rare Book and Manuscript Library . From 1973 to 1975 she was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute and gave regular guest lectures at American universities and scientific institutes. Despite her birth and life in Italy, she is an American citizen.

For decades, Mary de Rachewiltz has been campaigning publicly for the rehabilitation of her father Ezra Pound, who was compromised by his anti-Semitic and pro-fascist attitude, most recently in particular against his appropriation by the neo-fascist movement CasaPound .

Father Ezra Pound (1913)
Mother Olga Rudge (1910)

Cantos from the farming country

In 1987 Siegfried de Rachewiltz sketched South Tyrol as “also home” of his grandfather and showed this in his biography and in the Cantos.

bibliography

Translations of works by Ezra Pound

  • Catai . Milan, All'insegna del Pesce d'Oro, 1959.
  • Alcuni Nobili Drammi dal Giappone : da manoscritti di Ernest Fenellosa, scelti e finiti da Ezra Pound. Milan, All'insegna del Pesce d'Oro, 1961.
  • II Teatro Giapponese No di Ernest Fenellosa e Ezra Pound. Florence, Vallecchi, 1966.
  • Opere Scelte . Milan, Arnoldo Mondadori, 1970.
  • Cantos Scelti . Milan, Arnoldo Mondadori, 1973.
  • Le Nuvole di Pisa . Milan, Vanni Scheiwiller, 1973.
  • I Cantos . Milan, Arnoldo Mondadori, 1985.

Own works

  • Il diapason . Milan, Lerici-Scheiwiller, 1965.
  • Di Riflesso . Milan, All'insegna del Pesce d'Oro, 1966.
  • Discretions . Boston, Little Brown, 1971 (in German: Discretions. Memories of Ezra Pounds' daughter . Innsbruck, Haymon, 1993 ISBN 3852181321 ).
  • Process in verso . Milan, All'insegna del Pesce d'Oro, 1973.
  • Gocce che contano , poems (1995).
  • Polittico , poems (1996).
  • Whose World? , Poems (1998).
  • For the Wrong Reason , Poems (2002).

literature

  • Klaus Benesch: The answer to all questions is hidden in his Cantos. A visit to Ezra Pound's daughter Mary de Rachewiltz in South Tyrol , in: FAZ No. 128, June 4, 2016, p. 20

Web links

Commons : Mary de Rachewiltz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Links to the family

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mary de Rachewiltz: Discretions , 1971, p. 284
  2. ^ The Guardian, January 14, 2012: Ezra Pound's daughter fights to wrest the renegade poet's legacy from fascists , accessed October 30, 2018.
  3. ↑ Südtirol , Merian , September 1987
personal data
SURNAME Rachewiltz, Mary de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian-American writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Brixen