The cantos of ezra pound [from The Cantos of Ezra Pound (1972)]
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6101 WHEREFORE 6102 let all sundry and whoever be 6103 satisfied that the said MOUNT may be created. 6104 so that the echo turned back in my mind: Pavia: 6105 Saw cities move in one figure, Vicenza, as depicted 6106 San Zeno by Adige ... 6107 I Nicolaus Ulivis 6108 de Cagnascis citizen of Pistoja Florentine notary public 6109 countersigning 6110 Senatus Populusque Senensis 6111 OB PECUNIAE SCARCITATEM 6112 borrowing, rigging exchanges, 6113 licit consumption impeded 6114 and it is getting steadily WORSE 6115 others with specie abundant do not use it in business 6116 (to be young is to suffer. 6117 Be old, and be past that) 6118 do not use it in business and everyone remains here 6119 without work 6120 few come to buy in the market 6121 fewer still work the fields 6122 Monte non vacabilis publico 6123 shares not to expire with death ... will TTheir HHighnesses 6124 against public entries
6126 which wd. correspond to 10,000 income 6127 on the entries of the office of grazing 6128 with precautions (cauteles) 6129 to guarantee their same Highnesses against any possible loss 6130 Which idea dates at least to July 1623 6131 die decima ottava 6132 and other copies 1624, 1622 6133 which seems to have been approved 'last October' 6134 by Della Rena and M. Magdalene the She Guardian, 6135 tutrice, more or less regent 6136 Don Ferdinandus Secundus Dux Magnus 6137 and his Serenest she tutrices 6138 with public documentation 6139 for public and private utility 6140 foreseeing erection 6141 legitimate and just, such a MOUNTAIN
6144 no, Marcellus Austini, Caloanes Marescotti and 6145 Lord Mt Alban effected 6146 that the officers of this Mountain 6147 and in time to come all their successors 6148 shares that shall be called Loca Montis--- 6149 Have you a place on the Hill, sir? 6150 out of sure knowledge and 6151 ex certe scientia et in plenitude of their powers 6152 inviolable for observance, so to be comprehended 6153 10 thousand scudi 6154 de libris septeno 6155 ? one scudo worth 7 lire 6156 in respect to 200,000 (two hundred thousand). [Page 215] XLIII
6157 To the serenissimo Dno (pronounced Domino) 6158 and his most serene aftercomers 6159 things, persons et omnia alia juva 6160 whatever 6161 and the cash in the Pawn Shop 6162 (Mount of Pity) 6163 eiusdem civitatis Senén. 6164 there being in the third place 6165 2 thousand 310 there to the credit of 6166 The Magnificent Magistrates and Lords Officers 6167 and 3756 in the same Mount 6168 described as to credit of citizens 6169 and in common called money of Genova 6170 and Most Serene M Dux 6171 and serenest (feminine) tutrices 6172 by the said Masters Deputies of the Bailey 6173 as to the best mode and obligations and cautions 6174 most ample dee-liberation 6175 prayer, supplication as herewith and herefollowing 6176 videlicet alligati 6177 In the Name of Omnipotent God 6178 and the Glorious Virgin our Advocate 6179 to the Gd Duke's honour and exaltation 6180 the Most Serene, Tuscanissimo Nostro Signore 6181 in the Lord's year 1622 6182 Saturday fourth day of March 6183 at? VIth (hour? after sunrise or whatever) 6184 called together assembled in general 6185 council of the People of the City of Siena magnificent 6186 Symbolic good of the Commune 6187 and fatherland dilettissimo
6189 citizens get satisfaction (siano soddisfatti) contentment 6190 and be fully persuaded of 6191 what for the common good is here being dealt with 6192 as we have already been for ten years projecting this MONTE 6193 for gt. future benefit to the city 6194 Worthy will to the chosen end. 6195 Ob pecuniae scarsitatem 6196 S. P. SENENsis ac pro eo amplissim 6197 Balia Collegium civices vigilantiae 6198 totius civitatis 6199 Urban VIIIth of Siena, Ferd. I mag duce do no 6200 felicitatem dominante et Ferd. I 6201 Roman Emperor as elected. 6202 1251 of the Protocols marked also 6203 X, I, I, F, and four arabic 6204 OB PECUNIAE SCARSITATEM 6205 because there was shortage of coin, in November 6206 because of taxes, exchanges, tax layings and usuries 6207 legitimate consumption impeded 6208 ten thousand on the office of pasturage 6209 to the end: 6210 four fat oxen 6211 having their arses wiped 6212 and in general being tidied up to serve god under my window 6213 with stoles of Imperial purple 6214 with tassels, and grooms before the carroccio 6215 on which carroch six lion heads 6216 to receive the wax offering 6217 Thus arrive the gold eagles, the banners of the contrade, 6218 and boxes of candles 6219 'Mn-YAWWH!!!' 6220 Said the left front ox, suddenly, 6221 'pnAWH!' as they tied on his red front band, [Page 217] 6222 St George, two hokey-pokey stands and the unicorn 6223 'Nicchio! Nicch-iO-né!!' 6224 The kallipygous Sienese females 6225 get that way from the salite 6226 that is from continual plugging up hill 6227 One box marked '200 LIRE' 6228 'laudate pueri' 6229 alias serve God with candles 6230 with the palio and 17 banners 6231 and when six men had hoisted up the big candle 6232 a bit askew in the carroch and the fore ox had 6233 been finally arse-wiped 6234 they set off toward the Duomo, time 6235 consumed 1 hour and 17 minutes. 6236 on the security 6237 mobile and immobile 6238 of individual citizens 6239 in the city or wheresoever REE- 6240 sponsibility quocunque aliunde 6241 and this obligatio, obligation shd/be divided 6242 by portion of immobile goods 6243 thus deliberated in full meeting 6244 in the name of the OMNIPOTENT, and of the glorious Virgin 6245 Ma (meaning Maria) our Advocate 6246 year of salvation 1622 on a Saturday 6247 as was the 4th day of March 6248 having already ten years ago started proposing 6249 representatives of the whole people 6250 and below written notaries public 6251 two hundred thousand 6252 (scudi) 6253 Maister Augustino Chisio equites 6254 anointed of the order of Stephen (pope, holy) 6255 ducatorum? no. ducentorum 6256 a return of 10,000 scudi
6258 To be or not to be tied up with the Pawn Shop 6259 and his successors in the Great Duchy 6260 guarantee of the income from grazing 6261 up to (illegible) said to mean, no ... 6262 libris septem, the sum of, summam, scutorum 6263 ten thousand 6264 On security mobile and immobile 6265 REE- 6266 sponsibility 6267 Out of Syracuse 6268 not having money aboard 6269 to Athens at creditors' risk 6270 cut the sails, dumped oil at an island 6271 but the S.O. man 6272 wouldnt swallow it. 6273 Up to the quantity of 200,000 6274 on the whole people's credit 6275 for public and private utility 6276 shares to be called Loca Montis 6277 which is to say sites on the Mountain 6278 @ 100 scudi to give 5 scudi a year 6279 as long as the MOUNT endure 6280 there first was the fruit of nature 6281 there was the whole will of the people 6282 serene M. Dux and His tutrices 6283 and lords deputies of the Bailey, in name of Omnipotent God 6284 best mode etcetera, and the Glorious Virgin 6285 convoked and gathered together 1622 6286 general council there were 117 councillors 6287 in the hall of World Map, with bells and with 6288 voice of the Cryer (Il Banditore) 6289 shares of Mount to yield five scudi on each hundred 6290 per annum, and to be separate from the PITY [Page 219] 6291 with its own magistrates, its own ministers 6292 Illus Balia eseguisca in tutto 6293 Rescript of TTheir HHighnesses 6294 ACTUM SENIS in Parochia S. Giovannis 6295 blank leaves at end up to the index 6296 hoc die decim' octavo, from the Incarnation 6297 year 1623. Celso had a wheat scheme 6298 July to December, July to November 6299 Grass nowhere out of place. 6300 Pine cuts the sky into three 6301 Thus BANK of the grassland was raised into Seignory 6302 stati fatti Signoria, being present Paris Bolgarini 6303 credit of the Commune of Siena 6304 12 of the Bailey present ... went into committee 6305 I cancellarius wrote to His Highness 6306 A New Mount that shall receive from all sorts of persons 6307 from Luoghi public and private, privileged and non-privileged 6308 a base, a fondo, a deep, a sure and a certain 6309 the City having 'entrate' 6310 the customs and public income 6311 150 to [Image] scudi 6312 to guarantee which 6313 wd/suffice 8 to 10 thousand yearly 6314 on the gabelle and/or on the dogana 6315 Tuesday 3 Jan to Wed. 6 Epifany 1622 6316 a New Monte requested to bear @ 5% annual 6317 1622 January, assigned on the Paschi 6318 Offo de Paschi 6319 March 1622 Donna Orsola of wherever removed from the book 6320 of the Sienese public women (motion approved by the Bailey) 6321 March 24 again appeared black money from Florence 6322 Monte de Firenze, vacabile, 1591, [Page 220] 6323 payable every two months had been 8 and ½ 6324 gangsters admitted. 6325 1621 to provide WORK for the populace. 6326 register, rescript 6327 O--- 6328 razio della Rena to be recognized 6329 as illegitimate father of the bastards of Pietro de Medici 6330 at 100 scudi per annum 6331 if you follow me, not as the 6332 legitimate father of Pietro's illegitimate offspring 6333 Orbem bellis, urbem gabellis, Urbanus octavus 6334 implevit. 6335 June 21st Friday or thereabouts 1624 6336 agreed to magistrate's order that 6337 Mrs Margurita de Pecora Gallo 6338 be removed from the register of the town whores 6339 of Siena, on charge of thievery 6340 Friday the first day of July 6341 Merchants spoke to the Bailey, action on Monte Nuovo 6342 delayed 6343 Jan. 1622 the Duke answered, and already spoke of the 6344 grass land 6345 16 July, Monte Nuovo, committee to arrange it. 6346 New Mount approved by their Highnesses 6347 Xbre Monte Paschale, fatto Signoria notice served to the 6348 Magistrates for Conservations and to the Magistracy of 6349 the Grazing 6350 May 1626 more stew about the black money (lead money) 6351 rescript: 6353 be not put for the Lord Count nor his successors 6354 any surety for bandits and criminals [Page 221] 6355 but only for civil debts, that it serve not as safe cache for criminals 6356 as did the Florentine Loan Office 6357 anno domini 15 hundred an' whatever 6358 remain obliged to take salt from Grosseto 6359 at the same price as now ruling 6360 1676 ambassadors to Firenze 6361 when the Grand Duke said he did not understand economics 6362 non intendeva di quella materia 6363 being obliged to trust in his ministers 6364 1679 for two years no one gaoled 6365 for debts under 14 lire, those in for 30 or under 6366 cd. be released on order of the Buonuomini 6367 who shd/fix terms for arbitration 6368 Monte to lend 4736 scudi 6369 to the Tolomei foundation, and to take no interest on this sum 6370 spent for the college 6371 1680 to debtors 4% and one third 6372 to creditors be paid 2/3rds of 1% under that, frozen assets 6373 Dixbre '22 make responsible 6374 all persons, and all goods of the laity 6375 that the Mount have its fund secure 6376 that whoso puts his coin in it shall hold his luoghi 6377 bearing 5% fruitage per annum 6378 Signed Nicolo de Antille 6379 Horatio Gianfiglioli 6380 Seb. Cellesi LL AA (Their Highnesses) 6381 gratify this demand to set up a Monte 6382 to Public Good and to private 6383 to empower, facilitate, and be licit 6384 were pleased to accommodate, and prestare 6385 the fund on the Grand Duke's public income 6386 to the sum as of capital 200,000 6387 for 5% fruitage that wd. be ten thousand the year
6389 Paschi di detta Città 6390 the said sum with cautele 6391 that no one shd/suffer 6392 Maria Maddalena, tutrice 6393 Horo della Rena 6394 (whose bastards) 6395 1622 thirtieth of Xembre were not his natural bastards 6396 that the Illustrious Bailey shall execute this order in all points 6397 (but only his bastards officially) 6398 faithful rescript of their Highnesses 6399 2 Jan. 1622, Orazio Grcolini 6400 Stile senese or the year beginning in March 6401 Enacted Siena, in the Parish of S. Gionni, in palatio, 6402 with witnesses above mentioned, apostolic, imperial, citizen 6403 of Siena 6404 Firenze 1749, 1000 scudi 6405 for draining the low land 6406 2000 to fix Roman Road advance authorized up to 12,000 6407 Public debt at the end of the Medici 6408 scudi 14 million 6409 or 80 million lira pre-war. [Page 223] XLIV
6410 And thou shalt not, Firenze 1766, and thou shalt not 6411 sequestrate for debt any farm implement 6412 nor any yoke ox nor 6413 any peasant while he works with the same. 6414 Pietro Leopoldo 6415 Heavy grain crop unsold 6416 never had the Mount lacked for specie, cut rate to four and 1/3rd 6417 creditors had always been paid, 6418 that trade inside the Grand Duchy be free of impediments 6419 shut down on grain imports 6420 '83, four percent legal maximum interest 6421 '85, three on church investments, motu proprio 6422 Pietro Leopoldo 6423 Ferdinando EVVIVA!! 6424 declared against exportation 6425 thought grain was to eat 6426 Flags trumpets horns drums 6427 and a placard 6428 VIVA FERDINANDO 6429 and were sounded all carillons 6430 with bombs and with bonfires and was sung TE DEUM 6431 in thanks to the Highest for this so 6432 provident law 6433 and were lights lit in the chapel of Alexander 6434 and the image of the Madonna unveiled 6435 and sung litanies and then went to St Catherine's chapel 6436 in S. Domenico and by the reliquary 6437 of the Saint's head sang prayers and 6438 went to the Company Fonte Giusta
6440 and when was this thanksgiving ended the cortege 6441 and the contrade with horns drums 6442 trumpets and banners went to the 6443 houses of the various ambulant vendors, then were the sticks of the 6444 flags set in the stanchions on the Palace of the Seignors 6445 and the gilded placard between them 6446 (thus ended the morning) 6447 meaning to start in the afternoon 6448 and the big bell and all bells of the tower in the piazza 6449 sounded from 8 a.m. until seven o'clock in the evening 6450 without intermission and next day was procession 6451 coaches and masks in great number 6452 and of every description e di tutte le qualità 6453 to the sound always of drums and trumpets 6454 crying VIVA FERDINANDO and in all parts of the piazza 6455 were flames in great number and grenades burning 6456 to sound of bombs and of mortaretti and the shooting of 6457 guns and of pistols and in chapel of the Piazza 6458 a great number of candles for the publication of this so 6459 provident law and at sundown were dances 6460 and the masks went into their houses 6461 and the captains of the ward companies, 6462 the contrade, took their banners to the Piazza Chapel 6463 where once more they sang litanies 6464 and cried again Ferdinando EVVIVA 6465 Evviva Ferdinado il Terzo 6466 and from the contrade continued the drumming 6467 and blowing of trumpets and hunting horns, 6468 torch flares, grenades and they went to the Piazza del Duomo 6469 with a new hullabaloo gun shots mortaretti and pistols 6470 there were no streets not ablaze with the torches 6471 or with wood fires and straw flares 6472 and the vendors had been warned not to show goods for 6473 fear of disorder and stayed all that day within doors
6475 Dovizia annonaria 6476 to be freed from the Yoke of Licence 6477 From October 9th until the 3rd of November 6478 was unforeseen jubilation, four lines of tablet in marble: 6479 Frumentorum licentia 6480 coercita de annonaria laxata Pauperum aeque 6481 divitium bono conservit 6482 FERDINANDI 1792 6483 refused to take with him objects of small bulk which he 6484 held to be the property of the nation. Ferd III. 1796 6485 that the sovereign be il più galantuomo del paese 6486 the citizen priest Fr Lenzini mounted the tribune 6487 to join the citizen Abrâm 6488 and in admiring calm sat there with them the citizen 6489 the Archbishop 6490 from 7,50 a bushel to 12 6491 by the 26th April 6492 and on June 28th came men of Arezzo 6493 past the Porta Romana and went into the ghetto 6494 there to sack and burn hebrews 6495 part were burned with the liberty tree in the piazza 6496 and for the rest of that day and night 6497 1799 anno domini 6498 Pillage stopped by superior order 3rd July was discovered a 6499 treason 6500 in the cartridges given the troops 6501 that is were full of semolina, not powder 6502 and cherry stone where shd/have been ball 6503 and in others too little powder 6504 Respectons les prêtres, remarked Talleyrand 6505 1800 a good grain and wine year 6506 if you wd/get on well with the peasantry 6507 of the peninsula. [Page 226] 6508 Premier Brumaire: 6509 Vous voudrez citoyen 6510 turn over all sums in yr/ cash box 6511 to the community, fraternité, greetings. 6512 Delort 6513 acting for Dupont Lieutenant General 6514 Louis King of Etruria, Primus, absolute, without constitution. 6515 taxes so heavy that are thought to be more than 6516 paid by subjects of Britain. 6517 Gen. Clarke to the Ministro degli Esteri 6518 Whereas the fruits of the Mount were the 2/3rds of the one 6519 percent 6520 wherewith to pay all current expenses. Madame ma soeur et 6521 cousine 6522 I have received Your Majesty's letter of 6523 November twenty-fourth I 6524 suppose that in the actual circumstances 6525 She will be in a hurry to get to Spain or at least to 6526 leave a country where she can no longer 6527 stay with the dignity befitting her rank. 6528 I have given orders that she be 6529 received in my kingdom of Italy 6530 and in my French States with honours that are due her. 6531 If your Majesty should be in Milan or Turin 6532 before the 18th of december I should have the 6533 advantage of seeing her. I am sending an officer my 6534 aide de camp, General Reile who will deliver this letter. 6535 He will be charged at the same time to take measures 6536 for the security of the country and 6537 to remove men who could trouble its quiet, 6538 since I learn that Your Majesty has already thought necessary 6539 to import troops from Lisbon. 6540 My troops shd have by now entered that capital 6541 and taken possession of Portugal [Page 227] 6542 Wherewith I pray God, Madam my sister and cousin, 6543 he be pleased to have you in holy and worthy keeping 6544 At Venice, december fifth 1807 6545 Your Majesty's kind brother and cousin 6546 NAPOLEON 6547 (his secretary mixing the pronouns 6548 You, She, she all to Majesty) 6549 And those men who 'with bestial enthusiasm' took horse place 6550 were, says the much lesser Bandini, paid by the prefect 6551 and beforehand prepared. 6552 "Artists high rank, in fact sole social summits 6553 which the tempest of politics can not reach," 6554 which remark appears to have been made by 6555 Napoleon 6556 And 'Semiramis' 1814 departed from Lucca 6557 but her brother's law code remains. 6558 monument di civile sapienza 6559 dried swamps, grew cotton, brought in merinos 6560 mortgage system improved 6561 'Thank god such men be but few' 6562 though they build up human courage 6563 And before him had been Pietro Leopoldo 6564 that wished state debt brought to an end; 6565 that put the guilds under common tribunal; 6566 that left names only as vestige of feudal chain; 6567 that lightened mortmain that princes and church be under tax 6568 as were others; that ended the gaolings for debt; 6569 that said thou shalt not sell public offices; 6570 that suppressed so many gabelle; 6571 that freed the printers of surveillance 6572 and wiped out the crime of lèse majesty; 6573 that abolished death as a penalty and all tortures in prisons 6574 which he held were for segregation;
6576 roads, trees, and the wool trade, 6577 the silk trade, and a set price, lower, for salt; 6578 plus another full page of such actions Habsburg Lorraine 6579 His son the Third Ferdinando, cut taxes by half, 6580 improved tillage in Val di Chiana, Livorno porto franco. 6581 and this day came Madame Letizia, 6582 the ex-emperor's mother, and on the 13th departed. Yüklə 2,9 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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