Wei  asks , "Did Pound know anything about this?
Yes, in Canto XXXVII Pound remembers it said 'that Mr. Hamilton has never
hesitated to jeopard the general for advance of particular interests'. Great
explosive tension here seeing as he is remembering all this in the "vicinage
of Vesuvius" like Browning watching the brown Italian girls but  unlike
Sordello, Pound has found the key to mediate between the finite and the
infinite (Rabate). And that should take us onto the higher ground of the
gods and goddesses of Europe. But one final note on the finite. From
"Paradiso" XIX l.118 taged by Pound on CantoXXXVIII in reference to Philip
the Fair (Unfair) debasing the currency return to Canto XXXVII "if a man
have in primeval forest set up his cabin", etc. "O bright Apollo"

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