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