page_title: Mary de Rachewiltz
section_title: Middle years
hierarchical_section_title: Mary de Rachewiltz / Middle years
caption_attribution_description: &#160;&#160;This media shows the cultural heritage monument with the number 17582 in South Tyrol. Brunnenburg in Dorf Tirol
context_page_description: Mary de Rachewiltz is an Italian-American poet and translator.
context_section_description: During World War II Olga lost possession of her home in Venice, and Mary moved for a period with her mother to Rapallo. She was later sent back to Gais when Pound brought his legal wife, Dorothy Shakespear, to live with Olga for a period during the war. During this time, Rudge worked in a German hospital in Italy. She was 19 when her father finally told her about his other family: his wife Dorothy and son Omar. When she returned to Rapallo, she found her father had been arrested by U.S. authorities on treason charges because of his wartime broadcasts; he was being held at the "Disciplinary Training Center" in Pisa. Pound was taken from Pisa to the U.S., where he was found mentally incompetent for trial. He was committed for the next 12 years at St. Elizabeths Hospital, where he continued to intermittently write, and receive his wife, friends and literary visitors. On his release Pound returned to Italy. He lived for a period with Mary and her family at Brunnenburg.
  In 1946, Mary married Egyptologist Boris de Rachewiltz. A son was born the next year, followed by a daughter two years later. They bought and renovated for their residence Brunnenburg castle in the Italian Tyrol. She published an autobiography Discretions in 1971. The following year, her father died in Venice.
  In the 1980s de Rachewiltz published the first dual-language edition of her father's epic poem The Cantos, which he began work on in the years before 1915 and continued throughout his life until his death. She is curator of the Ezra Pound Archive, Center for the Study of Ezra Pound and His Contemporaries, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. De Rachewiltz studied at Radcliffe College between 1973 and 1975. She has presented lectures about her father's work and modernist poetry throughout the U.S. and Canada. She collected and co-edited with biographer David Moody, her father's letters written to his parents, published in 2011 as Ezra Pound to His Parents.
caption: Mary de Rachewiltz and her husband Boris de Rachewiltz bought and renovated Brunnenburg castle in the Italian Tyrol
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