Olga Rudge & Ezra Pound: "What Thou Lovest Well..."

Robilant, Comte de, 111
Robinson, Major, 158
Rogers, William P., 214–15
Romanzo di Moscardino, Il (Pea), 186–87
Rome Daily American, 265
Rome Radio (RAI), 121, 140, 143–44, 145,
147, 149, 157, 161, 197
Roosevelt, Alice (Mrs. Longworth), 121,
224
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 121, 136, 192
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 121, 135, 136, 151,
156, 162, 168
Roosevelt, Theodore, 16
Root, Elihu, Jr., 137
Root, Waverly, 95
Rosenkavalier, Der (Strauss), 110
Ross-on-Wye (Herefordshire), 13
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 147
Rossi, Romolo, 237
Rothschild, Lionel Walter, Baron de, 133
Royal Academy of Italy, 146
Royal Conservatory of Music (London),
12
Rubin, Nathan, 279
Rubinstein, Arthur, 213
Rudge, Arthur Edgar (brother), 14, 25, 30,
33, 36–37, 39–40, 41, 43, 59, 64, 77,
123, 205, 242, 251–52, 268, 281
Rudge, Edgar Marie (‘‘Teddy,’’ brother),
1, 14–15, 20–21, 23, 25, 28, 30–31, 33–
35, 36, 39, 41, 43, 48, 49, 53, 77, 97, 109,
121, 133, 158, 161, 194, 196, 197, 205,
211, 216–17, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272,
274, 278
Rudge, Edward (English ancestor), 13
Rudge, Elizabeth (niece), 274
Rudge, Emma Stock (aunt), 22–23, 36
Rudge, Father Eugene (uncle), 97
Rudge, George (grandfather), 13, 23
Rudge, James (great-uncle), 13
Rudge, Jane (sister-in-law), 49, 53
Rudge, Jane Stock (grandmother), 13
Rudge, John (nephew), 96, 196, 216–17,
270
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Rudge, John Edgar (father), 12, 14–15, 23,
34, 42, 43, 63, 64, 71, 82, 121
Rudge, Julia O’Connell (mother), 10–12,
14–16, 18–20, 29–31, 33, 34, 36, 38, 41,
42, 47, 64, 78, 105, 209, 251, 267, 272,
273, 289
Rudge, Katherine (stepmother), 64, 121,
200, 205
Rudge, Maria. See Rachewiltz, Mary de
Rudge, Olga: as concert violinist, 1, 7, 20,
22, 26, 28, 31–32, 33–34, 35–36, 39,
42–43, 45–46, 52, 63, 66–68, 70–73,
78, 88, 111, 120, 122; character and
appearance, 2, 7, 9, 14, 125; walking
tour with EP, 7, 92; Irish background,
11, 13, 18–19, 274, 277, 289; birth and
early childhood, 12–14; English roots,
13; Catholic faith, 13–14, 18–19, 29, 49,
75, 91, 220, 277, 290; in New York, 15;
at convent school, 16–19, 65; in St.
John’s Wood (London), 19–21, 38, 274;
in Paris, 34, 64, 77, 97, 194, 225, 274;
depressions, 48, 65, 86, 91, 180, 193;
and motherhood, 56–57, 89–91; birth
of daughter Mary, 59–60; in Sant’Ambrogio,
60, 93–94, 129, 145–46, 153–
54, 158, 160, 162, 164, 171, 183, 188–89,
201, 218, 221, 226, 228, 242, 273, 280; in
Venice, 87, 98–100, 146, 167, 175, 199–
200, 202, 220–21, 224–45, 230, 235,
239, 241, 252, 254, 262, 276, 284–86; as
translator, 95, 186–87, 271; as Accademia
administrator and librarian, 113–
14, 128–29, 173–226; as musicologist,
132, 187, 222, 272, 277, 284, 289; and
‘‘women’s liberation,’’ 273; as grandmother,
278; and EP’s anti-Semitism,
282, 285–86; Ristori prize, 283; last
days and death, 288–90; books in
library of, 326n
—relations with: EP, 1–3, 5–6, 9, 32, 48,
50, 57, 75, 81, 83–85, 86–88, 90–92,
100–102, 118, 120, 154, 174, 176–77,
182–83, 187–90, 213, 222–26, 273;