Thank you, Luca, this is very helpful. Incidently, many of
Evola's works are now available in English. Just recently his book on Magic
has been published in English. Unfortunately, there is no translation of his
autobiography, "Cavalcare la tigre" in English just yet. His identification
of the Grail cycle with the Ghibelline tradition is one which I would think
would have interested Pound.



CDM

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>From: Luca Gallesi <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: R:   evola and pound
>Date: Fri, Jan 26, 2001, 9:55 AM
>

> Even if Evola and Pound shared the same publisher (Vanni Scheiwiller) and
> Pound's son -in-law Boris de Rachewiltz has been a close acquaintance of
> Evola, the two probably never met. They exchanged letters, as it is evident
> from a collection of Evola letters (Julius Evola, _Letters 1955-1974_ edited
> by Renato del Ponte, La Terra degli Avi, Finale Emilia 1995.) From these
> letters, and from other trustworth sources, I may say that they did not like
> each other very much. Evola thought Pound was literally obsessed by economic
> manias, while Pound thought that Evola was a gloomy person.
>  Dismissing Evola as a "high-minded racist" it is a real mistake, as he has
> been the most important Italian Dada painter -and poet- (Two ehibitions of
> his paintings have been recently held in Rome and in Milan, patrocinized by
> Italian Ministry of Culture); one of the most original idealistic
> philosopher, and many other things ... He translated Spengler and Otto
> Weininger in Italian and wrote books on the Holy Grail, on Alchemy, on Sex
> and on  Buddism which are always in print. For example, his book on Buddism
> has been translated in English by the Paly Society, while his life and
> thought have been analyzed in many international conference attended by high
> minded scholars and intellectuals...
>