VIII-XI – GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY 

SOURCES OF THE MALATESTA CANTOS – OVERVIEW

BOOKS

1. Battaglini, Gaetano Francesco. “Della vita e de’ fatti di Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta Signor di Rimino, Commentario del conte Francesco Gaetano Battaglini.” In Basinii Parmensis Poetae. Opera præstantiora nunc primum edita et opportunis commentariis inlustrata. Arimini: Ex Typographia Albertiniana, 1794. Vol 2, Part II: 257-711. Free online.
2. Beltramelli, Antonio. Un tempio d’amore. Palermo: Sandron, 1912.
3. [Benzi, Andrea]. Malatesta Sigismundus. ”Delatio criminum ipsius facta Consistorio publico Advocatum sii Secundi. Johannis Benedicti Mittarelli, ed. Biblioteca codicum manuscriptorum monasterii Michaelis Venetiarum Murianum Col 704-714. Ex Typographia Fentiana, 1779. Andreas Benzi oration.
4. Broglio Tartaglia, Gaspare. Cronaca Malatestiana del Secolo XV: dalla Cronaca Universale. In Luigi Tonini. 1880. Rimini nella signoria de’ Malatesti. Seconda parte. Rimini: Bruno Ghigi, 1971.
5. Clementini, Cesare. Raccolto istorico della fondatione di Rimino e dell’origine, e vite de’ Malatesti. 2 vols. Rimini: Simbeni, 1627. 
6. Hutton, Edward. Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta Lord of Rimini. A Study of the XV Century Italian Despot. London: J. M. Dent 1906. Internet Archive.
7. Pius II. Commentaries. Ed. Margaret Meserve. 2 vols. [Books I-IV.] Cambridge Mass.: Harvard 2004.
8. Pius II. Commentaries. [Books I-XIII]. Florence Gragg. 5 vols. Northampton, Mass. 1937-57.
9. Schultze, Fritz. Georgios Gemisto Plethon und seine reformatorischen Bestrebungen. Jena: Mauke’s Verlag, 1874. Free online. 
10. Soranzo, Giovanni. Pio II e la politica italiana nella lotta contro i Malatesti. Padova: Fratelli Drucker, 1911.
11. Yriarte, Charles. Un Condottiere au XV^esiècle. Paris: Rothschild, 1882.

ARTICLES

1. Banchi, Luciano. “La Guerra de Senesi col Conte di Pitigliano.” Archivio storico italiano. Ser. 4 vol.3 (1879): 184-197.
2. Grigioni, C. “Documenti inediti intorno a Sigismondo Malatesta.” Romagna (August-September 1910): 367-83.
3. Grigioni, C. “Un capriccio di Sigismondo Malatesta.” Arte e storia ser. 3 10 (1908): 40-41.
4. Rossi, Luigi. “Di un delitto di Sigismondo Malatesta.” Rivista di scienze storiche 7 v-vi (1910): 362-82.
5. Soranzo, Giovanni. “La sigla SI di Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta,” La Romagna 6 (1909): 306–24.
6. Soranzo, Giovanni. “Un’ Invettiva Della Curia Romana contro Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta.” Estratto della rivista di storia e di lettere La Romagna. Imola: Paolo Galeati, 1911. 

BOOKS DISSERTATIONS AND REPRINTS ON THE MALATESTA, THE TEMPIO, AND RIMINI

1. D’Elia, Anthony F. Pagan Virtue in a Christian World: Sigismondo Malatesta and the Italian Renaissance. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016.
2. Hill, George Francis. A Corpus of Italian Medals of the Renaissance before Cellini. 2 vols. London: British Museum, 1930.
3. Jones, J. et al. Studi Malatestiani. Roma: Nella sede dell’ Instituto Palazzo Borromini, 1978.
4. Jones P. J. 1974. The Malatesta of Rimini and the Papal State. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005.
5. Morosini, Giulia. “L’Elefante e il Leone: Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta e la Repubblica di Venezia.” Diss., U. di Padova, 2012-13. Free online. 
6. Pasini, Pier Giorgio. Il tempio malatestiano. Splendore cortese e classicismo umanistico. Geneva and Milano: Skira, 2011.
7. Pernis, Maria Grazia and Laurie Schneider Adams. Federico Da Montefeltro & Sigismondo Malatesta: The Eagle and the Elephant. New York: Peter Lang, 1996.
8. Ricci, Corrado. 1924. Il Tempio Malatestiano. Milano and Roma: Casa editrice d’arte Bestetti & Tumminelli, 1974.
9. Siniossoglou, Niketas. Radical Platonism in Byzantium: Illumination and Utopia in Gemistos Plethon. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2011.
10. Stokes, Adrian. 1932, 1934. The Quattro Cento, and, Stones of Rimini. University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 2002.
11. Woodhouse, C. M., George Gemistos Plethon: The Last of the Hellenes. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. 159 –60, 164.

ARTICLES

1. Ceriani Sebregondi, Giulia. “La ricostruzione del Tempio. Il restauro post-bellico del Tempio Malatestiano di Rimini.” Engramma 61 (March 2008). Engramma.it.
2. Massèra, Aldo Francesco. “I poeti isottei,” Giornale storico della letteratura italiana 57 (1911): 1–32.
3. Pound, Ezra. Rev. of Stones of Rimini, by Adrian Stokes. Criterion 13 (April 1934): 495–97.
4. Read, Richard. “The Unpublished Correspondence of Ezra Pound and Adrian Stokes; Modernist Myth-Making in Sculpture, Literature, Aesthetics and Psychoanalysis.” Comparative Criticism 21 (1999): 79-127.

SECONDARY LITERATURE ON THE MALATESTA CANTOS

BOOKS AND DISSERTATIONS

1. D’Epiro, Peter Francis. A Touch of Rhetoric. Ezra Pound’s Malatesta Cantos. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1983.
2. Rainey, Lawrence. Ezra Pound and the Monument of Culture: Text, History, and the Malatesta Cantos. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1991. 
3. Wilson, Stephen. “Writing and Reading History: A Study of Ezra Pound’s Malatesta, Jefferson and Adams Cantos.” Diss. U of Dublin, Trinity College, 2003. Free online.

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS AND COLLECTIONS

1. Araujo, Anderson. “Canto 8.” Readings in The Cantos. Ed. Richard Parker. Clemson: Clemson UP, 2018. 95-108.
2. Bacigalupo, Massimo. “‘And as for the text we have taken it...’ Retranslating Ezra Pound’s Cantos.” Lingue e Linguaggi 14 (2015): 121-35.
3. Bornstein, Daniel, “The Poet as Historian: Researching the Malatesta Cantos” Paideuma 10 (1981): 283-91. 
4. Bush, Ronald. “Canto 11.” Readings in The Cantos. Ed. Richard Parker. Clemson: Clemson UP, 2018. 109-120.
5. Drummond, John. “The Italian Background to The Cantos.” [1949].  In Ezra Pound. A collection of essays edited by Peter Russell to be presented to ezra Pound on his sixty-fifth birthday. London: Peter Nevill Limited, 1950. 107-13.
6. Harper Michael, “Truth and Calliope: Ezra Pound’s Malatesta” PMLA 96 (1981): 86-103.
7. Kimpel, Ben D. and T. C. Duncan Eaves, “Pound’s Research for the Malatesta Cantos” Paideuma 11 (1982): 406-19.
8. Moody, A. D. “Bel Esprit  and the Malatesta Cantos: A Post-Waste Land  Conjunction of Pound and Eliot.” Ezra Pound and Europe. Ed. Richard Taylor and Claus Melchior. Amsterdam-Atlanta GA: Rodopi, 1993. 79-91.
9. Moramarco, Fred. “The Malatesta Cantos,” Mosaic 12 (1978): 107-18.
10. Nicholls, Peter. “Gold and Gloom in Ravenna: On a Line in Ezra Pound's Cantos.” Modern Philology 119.4 (May 2022): 535-554. Abstract.
11. Rainey, Lawrence Scott. “‘All I Want You to Do Is Follow the Orders’: History, Faith, and Fascism in the Early Cantos.” A Poem Containing History. Textual Studies in The Cantos. Ed. Lawrence S. Rainey. Ann Arbor: The U of Michigan P, 1997. 63-116.
12. Rainey, Lawrence Scott. “Pound or Eliot: Whose Era?” The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry. Eds. Alex Davis and Lee M. Jenkins. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007.
13. Rainey, Lawrence Scott. Review of Ezra Pound Poet Vol. II: The Epic Years, by David Moody. Modern Philology 113.1 (August 2015): E50-52.
14. Ricciardi, Caterina. “Archives.” Ezra Pound in Context. Ed. Ira Nadel. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010. 148-58.
15. Rhodes, Evan. “Forms of Havoc. The Malatesta Cantos and the Battler.” Modernism/modernity 17.2 (April 2010): 363-82.
16. Ten Eyck, David. “History and Anonymity in Ezra Pound’s Documentary Method.” Ezra Pound and Referentiality. Ed. Hélène Aji. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2003. 279-88.
17. Wilson, Stephen. “A Tentative Intervention in the Argument ‘Sous les Lauriers.’” Ezra Pound and History. Ed. Marianne Korn. Orono: National Poetry Foundation, 1985. 63-74.

BOOK CHAPTERS AND SECTIONS

1. Bacigalupo, Massimo. “Annotazioni VIII-XI.” Ezra Pound XXX Cantos. Parma: Ugo Guanda, 2012. 341-42.
2. Bacigalupo, Massimo. The Forméd Trace. The Later Poetry of Ezra Pound. New York: Columbia UP, 1980. 39-47.
3. Beasley Rebecca. “The Malatesta Cantos and the Efficient Tyrant.” Ezra Pound and the Visual Culture of Modernism. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007. 193-204.
4. Bernstein, Michael André. The Tale of the Tribe: Ezra Pound and the Modern Verse Epic. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1980. 39-42.
5. Bush, Ronald. The Genesis of Ezra Pound’s Cantos. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976. 246-49.
6. Carpenter, Humphrey. A Serious Character. The Life of Ezra Pound. New York: Delta, 1988. [Section: 418-421.]
7. Cookson, William. “Sigismundo Malatesta: ‘In the gloom, the gold gathers the light against it.’” A Guide to the Cantos of Ezra Pound. London: Anvil, 2001. 21-25.
8. Davenport, Guy. “Sigismondo Malatesta: An Introduction.” In Cities on Hills. A Study of I-XXX of Ezra Pound’s Cantos. Epping: Bowker, 1983. 157-62.
9. Davie, Donald. Ezra Pound. The Poet as Sculptor. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1964. 125-32.
10. De Rachewiltz, Mary and Maria Ardizzone. “Commento: VIII-XI.” Ezra Pound I Cantos. A cura di Mary de Rachewiltz. [Bilingual English-Italian edition]. Milano: Mondadori, 1985. 1509-10.
11. Furia, Philip. Pound’s Cantos Declassified.  University Park and London: The Pennsylvania State UP, 1984. 15-28.
12. Ickstadt, Heinz und Eva Hesse. “Anmerkungen und Kommentar: Die Malatesta Cantos VIII-XI.” Ezra Pound. Die Cantos. Tr. by Eva Hesse and Manfred Pfister. Eds. Manfred Pfister and Heinz Ickstadt. Zurich: Arche Literatur Verlag, 2013. 1204-17.
13. Liebregts, Peter. Ezra Pound and Neoplatonism. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2004. 152-161.
14. Longenbach, James. “Truth and Calliope.” Modernist Poetics of History: Pound, Eliot, and the Sense of the Past. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1987. 131-52.
15. Makin, Peter. “Cantos VIII-XI: Malatesta.” Pound’s Cantos. London: Allen & Unwin, 1985.
16. Miyake, Akiko. “The Lady Temple: A Defense of the Builder.” Ezra Pound and the Mysteries of Love. Durham: N.C.: Duke UP, 1991. 66-87.
17. Moody, David A. “A Renaissance Man.” [Malatesta]. Ezra Pound, Poet. Volume II: The Epic Years 1921-1939. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2007. 40-52.
18. North, Michael. The Final Sculpture: Public Monuments and Modern Poets. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1985. 132-56.
19. Pearlman, Daniel. “The Loss of the Concrete Universal.” The Barb of Time: On the Unity of Ezra Pound’s Cantos. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1969. 91-114.
20. Perloff, Marjorie. The Poetics of Indeterminacy. Rimbaud to Cage. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern UP, 1981. 180-89.
21. Phillips, Sara Elizabeth. “The Poetics of the Archive: Twentieth and Twenty-First Century American Poems Containing History.”  Diss. The U of Wisconsin - Madison, 2012 [1. Ezra Pound and the Privileged Archive 26-75 (on Ezra Pound’s interactions with the archives he consulted in Italy during his research into the Malatesta Cantos (1923))]. Free online.
22. Rainey, Lawrence Scott. “From the Patron to Il Duce. Ezra Pound’s Odyssey.” Institutions of Modernism. Literary Elites and Public Culture. New Haven: Yale UP, 1998. 107-145.
23. Rainey, Lawrence Scott. “The Malatesta Cantos VIII-XI.” Modernism: An Anthology. Ed. L. Rainey. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. 64-89. [Poems with annotation]
24. Ricciardi, Caterina. Ezra Pound: Ghiande di Luce. Rimini: Raffaeli Editore, 2006. [“Dai gradini dell’Arena a New York” 25-48; “Con Adrian Stokes nel Tempio Malatestiano” 49-78.]
25. Robinson, Peter. “Ezra Pound and Italian Art.” Pound’s Artists. Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts in London, Paris and Italy. London: Tate Gallery Publications, 1985. 121-176. [Section: 130-133.]
26. Selby, Nick. “Fragments Against Ruin. The Malatesta Cantos.”  Poetics of Loss in The Cantos of Ezra Pound. From Modernism to Fascism. Lewiston: Edwin Meller Press, 2006. 11-46.
27. Sicari, Stephen. Pound’s Epic Ambition. Dante and the Modern World. New York: SUNY Press, 1991. 68-72.
28. Sieburth, Richard. “Notes. Canto IX.” Ezra Pound. New Selected Poems and Translations. Ed. Richard Sieburth. New York: New Directions, 2010. 309-11.
29. Surette, L. A Light from Eleusis. A Study of Ezra Pound’s Cantos. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979.
30. Ten Eyck, David. “History and Anonymity in Ezra Pound’s Documentary Method.” Ezra Pound and Referentiality. Ed. Hélène Aji. Paris: Presses de l’Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2003. 279-88.
31. Ten Eyck, David. “Pound’s Documentary Poetics in the Malatesta and the Venetian Cantos.” Ezra Pound’s Adams Cantos. London: Bloomsbury, 2012. 41-51.
32. Terrell, Carroll F. “Cantos VIII-XI.” A Companion to The Cantos of Ezra Pound. Berkeley: U of California P, 1993. 35-58.

DIGITAL RESOURCES

1. “Canto VIII-XI.” A Canto a Day. Blog, 24 January-1 February 2009. Accessed 4 August 2018.  Free online.
2. Beinecke Library. Ezra Pound Papers. YCAL MSS 43. Series IV. Boxes 70-71. Drafts.
3. Beinecke Library. William Bird Papers. YCAL 178. Series II. Box 2. Drafts.
4. Guidi, Paolo. “Canto VIII.” The Cantos of Ezra Pound. Etching series. 17 September 2012. Accessed 4 August 2018. Free online.
5. Guidi, Paolo. “Canto IX.” The Cantos of Ezra Pound. Etching series. 19 September 2012. Accessed 4 August 2018. Free online.
6. Guidi, Paolo. “Canto X.” The Cantos of Ezra Pound. Etching series. 20 September 2012. Accessed 4 August 2018. Free online.
7. Guidi, Paolo. “Canto XI.” The Cantos of Ezra Pound. Etching series. 21 September 2012. Accessed 4 August 2018. Free online.
8. Sellar, Gordon. “Blogging Pound’s The Cantos: Canto VIII-IX (The Malatesta Cantos, Part 1).” gordsellar.com, 10 April 2012. Web. Free online.
9. Sellar, Gordon. “Blogging Pound’s The Cantos: Canto X-XI (The Malatesta Cantos Part 2).” gordsellar.com, 17 April 2012. Web. Free online.