Two key figures on the literary, political and social scene of the twentieth century, Ezra Pound (Hailey, 1885–Venice, 1972) and Pier Paolo Pasolini (Bologna, 1922–Ostia, 1975), met in Venice in the autumn of 1967, in what proved to be an unexpected convergence amidst their differences.
Their lives, so different and distant, crossed paths fatefully in a memorable television interview that would dispel their mutual prejudices, sparking an unexpected harmony.
In this essay, as agile as it is compelling, Luca Gallesi, a long-standing Pound scholar, brings together for the first time the animosities, the disagreements but, above all, the points of contact between two writers who marked a turning point in twentieth-century culture.