with Olga. Mary stayed, because South Tyrol was home. After her idyllic childhood in Gais, she had returned again and again to see Mamme and Tatte. Mamme, with her emotional, fearful Catholic heart and overflowing kitchen, offered true mother-love. But there could be only one father. “I have tried to write Paradise”, he declared, in his “Notes for Canto CXX”: “...let those I love try to forgive/ what I have made.”■ This article was downloaded by zlibrary from https://www.economist.com/obituary/2026/08/20/mary-de-rachewiltz-devoted-her-life- to-defending-ezra-pound
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