POUND RETURNS TO ITALY, NAPLES, Italy - from our story 'Ezra Pound’s 23 ‘Don’ts’ For Writing Verse (1913)'

Poet Ezra Pound is pictured saluting in Fascist style on the deck of the liner Christoforo Colombo on arrival in Naples, Italy, . Pound, 72, plans to live in northern Italy with his daughter, Mary, 32, the wife of Prince Boris De Rachewiltz. Pound was accused of treason because of broadcasts he made from Italy during World War II. He was returned to the U.S. in 1945, judged insane, and confined to a mental institution in Washington, D.C. until April of this year. July 9, 1958

Poet Ezra Pound is pictured saluting in Fascist style on the deck of the liner Christoforo Colombo on arrival in Naples, Italy, . Pound, 72, plans to live in northern Italy with his daughter, Mary, 32, the wife of Prince Boris De Rachewiltz. Pound was accused of treason because of broadcasts he made from Italy during World War II. He was returned to the U.S. in 1945, judged insane, and confined to a mental institution in Washington, D.C. until April of this year. July 9, 1958

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