Two minor Forteans.
Though one had an impressive title.
Both Boris de Rachewiltz and Signore Luigi Villari blonde to the same social circle as the Studers and Caresse Crosby—centered on Ezra Pound, and Italy—and it is through hose connections that they came to join the Society.
Born in 1926, Boris de Rachewiltz came from Russian stock. He was classically educated in Rome. In 1946, a year after Ezra Pound’s arrest, he married Pound’s daughter (with Olga Rudge), Mary. Pound had been living at the de Rachewitz’s land in Brunnenburg since 1927.
Boris attended the Faculty of Ancient Oriental Studies of the Pontificio Instituto Biblico, also in Rome, from 1951 to 1955, focusing on Egyptology. (In 1953, he also studied Vatican Diplomacy at Academia Vaticana.) In 1954, he published Massime degli Antichi Egiziana, which was translated as Maxins of the Ancient Egyptians in 1987 by the American writer and one-time friend of Ezra Pound Guy Davenport. Through the rest of the 1950s he also published books on ancient Egyptian love poetry; the Egyptian Book of the Dead; spells and incantations; and an introduction to African art. Also in 1958, Pound was released from his incarceration and returned to the de Rachewiltz’s castle.
According to the Ezra Pound encyclopedia, Pound used Boris’s research in his poems; and in the 1950s “Boris used his training in Vatican protocol and Italian politics to arrange pro-Pound broadcasts and speeches over Vatican Radio, to generate complimentary articles and testimonials on Pound, and to pressure the Italian press into taking up Pound’s cause.
Though one had an impressive title.
Both Boris de Rachewiltz and Signore Luigi Villari blonde to the same social circle as the Studers and Caresse Crosby—centered on Ezra Pound, and Italy—and it is through hose connections that they came to join the Society.
Born in 1926, Boris de Rachewiltz came from Russian stock. He was classically educated in Rome. In 1946, a year after Ezra Pound’s arrest, he married Pound’s daughter (with Olga Rudge), Mary. Pound had been living at the de Rachewitz’s land in Brunnenburg since 1927.
Boris attended the Faculty of Ancient Oriental Studies of the Pontificio Instituto Biblico, also in Rome, from 1951 to 1955, focusing on Egyptology. (In 1953, he also studied Vatican Diplomacy at Academia Vaticana.) In 1954, he published Massime degli Antichi Egiziana, which was translated as Maxins of the Ancient Egyptians in 1987 by the American writer and one-time friend of Ezra Pound Guy Davenport. Through the rest of the 1950s he also published books on ancient Egyptian love poetry; the Egyptian Book of the Dead; spells and incantations; and an introduction to African art. Also in 1958, Pound was released from his incarceration and returned to the de Rachewiltz’s castle.
According to the Ezra Pound encyclopedia, Pound used Boris’s research in his poems; and in the 1950s “Boris used his training in Vatican protocol and Italian politics to arrange pro-Pound broadcasts and speeches over Vatican Radio, to generate complimentary articles and testimonials on Pound, and to pressure the Italian press into taking up Pound’s cause.