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in Venice:<br />
On October the 26 th Cunard sends Pound information taken from another location<br />
Yesterday went to a very smelly shop and asked for some washlists,<br />
meanwhile I had my eye on a grand old volume which turned<br />
out to be accompanied by 7 more vellums 2 feet long and broad,<br />
the encyclopedia of 1745 – Leonello Borso, and Gemiste are there,<br />
all the others likewise, but not in intimacy. There is also the name<br />
ERP, come upon by chance – it says that ERP (is a village) &<br />
voyez Erpenius – but not time now to copy the others [sic]<br />
summary, but will – as the 8 vols are mine | I love your letter | now<br />
comes Lewis‘ voice – ―in 10 minutes‖, (I must get up – darling<br />
Ezra – I am frozen, more than you.)<br />
On the 27 th Cunard continues to describe her findings:<br />
Mentioned<br />
The works of Gemiste.<br />
Gessner_Bibliothèque<br />
Léo Allarius_ Diater. De. Geogr. Vossius_de Phil. Sect. ch 16 ∫. 6.<br />
de Histor Graec. l. 2, ch, 30. (and the last sign seems to be in<br />
Arabic, and it must be eighteenth century greek!)<br />
No this will not be much use. I don‘t think any of it will…<br />
Cunard observes some information she gleaned about Alberti before stating her<br />
intention to move on to Ravenna and then Rimini: ―I shall leave on the 1 st , perhaps going<br />
to Ravenna, Rimini for 2 days, and thence on from Bologna, or from here again<br />
immediately to Paris[.]‖ Plainly it was Cunard who confirmed for Pound the influence on<br />
Cosimo de Medici of the Byzantine neo-Platonist Gemisthus Plethon – characters who<br />
are at least as important to the Italian Renaissance Cantos VIII-XI as Malatesta. It was<br />
Cunard who honed Pound‘s research into Italian Renaissance neo-Platonic thought and<br />
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