Adding one more piece of information:
Gentile was assassinated on 15 April, 1944.
In the Pisan Cantos (LXXXIX), Pound expressed distaste for those who
assassinated  him, as described in Rainey 1991.

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> Pound was sure at least somewhat familiar with Giovanni Gentile
> -even if not with his philosophy:
> -in 1926 Yeats -who was a ferventestimator of the Italian
> Minister of National Education since 1923- made a proposal to the
> irish senate to introduce in ireland the same educational system
> that gentile had introcudec in Italy (and that made the italian
> schools be -until the recent ill-fated reform- among the best in
> the world).
> -Odon Por, in the 20s, used to write every month for the
> important journal "Critica Fascista, edited by Giovanni Gentile
> -During the Repubblica Sociale italiana Pound wrote to Gentile
> -who passed this letter to the head of State benito Mussolini-
> "enclosing a three-page proposal for a national education program
> in literature..." (Heymann, "The Last Rower", pag 142)
> - in his letters to Olivia Rossetti Agresti (edited by
> Surette-Tryphonopoulos) Pound mentions Gentile twice, recalling
> his vile assassination by Communists speeded up by British Secret Services
> -in a 1952 letter to W.Lewis (n.225 in EP-WL letters) Pound
> mentions his not deep acquintance with Gentile's philosophy,
> speaking about Italian culture in the Fascist Era:
> "the best of it was constructive/ but along with the live thought
> there was the non conforming thought/ naturally my Doug(las)/ and
> Gesellism had NO italian origins/ and was NOT part of govt/
> program BUT it was not suppressed for NOT being such/ and a lot
> of second rateliberaloid palukas/ such as Croce and einaudi burbled along
>             beside Gentile (probably a better egg/ tho I wasn't
> reading abstract discussion at the time...
>
>             Luca (male Italian name) Gallesi
>