Charles Bernstein has written an interesting article in Poetics
which is called - Pounding Pound's Fascism. And the canadian novelist
Timothy Findly has written a novel named Famous Last Words, an original
and striking fictionlization  of the problem . A whole context of fantasy
and reality are woven together. But I have never been offended by the
passage in one of the Pisan Cantos wherein the narrator seems to lament
the death of Mussolini and Clara. What is striking is how much the poet
creates a sentiment in 'himself' of grief out of which I am as reader
critically distant. How could it be other wise for any person who knows
how brutal Mussolini was?
        But again, the passage of time will neutralize more and more as
time passes these 'characters.' That is Pound's failure from my pointof
view. He does not nor did he have any desire to make Mussolini and Clara
look bad. Which is what Mussolini was, a brutal tyrant. This to me
represents the limits of Pound's art - his love for the fascists made it
impossible for him to make them as they were which was brutal. Unlike
Shakespeare and Richard the 3rd. who are brutal as we see them and remain
so as textual figures.