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Re: Can anyone tell me who Ezalino is?
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Jacob Korg <[log in to unmask]>
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- Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 15 Jul 2000 17:36:20 -0700
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I don't have Canto 72 with me, but I think Pound is referring to Ezzelino
da Romano, the tyrant and condottiere of the 13th century, who is a figure
in one of Pound's favorite poems, Browning's Sordello.I don't know
anything about the donkey.
                                        Jacob Korg

On Fri, 14 Jul 2000 [log in to unmask] wrote:

> I believe Ezalino is the ghoul (fool) who made the mistake of trying to
> reason with the donkey.
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> In a message dated 07/13/2000 6:58:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
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>  P.s. In Canto LXXII Pound writes,
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>                                  "I said: 'who are you'?
>          'I am that Ezalino who didn't believe
>                     the world was made by a jew,...'"
>
>  Can anyone tell me who Ezalino is?
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