F. M. H.: Ford Madox Hueffer (Ford) (cf. note GK 84).

Fox of the Forschungsinstitut: Douglas C. Fox, assistant to Frobenius at the Forschungsinstitut fur Kulturmorphologie in Frankfurt, through whom Pound corresponded with Frobenius in the 1930s. In 1937, Fox and Frobenius co-published African Genesis: Folk Tales and Myths of Africa (cf. notes GK 133, 242).

local Italian librarian: Most likely Manlio Torquato Dazzi (1891–1968), librarian at the Malatestine Library in Cesena, whom Pound had recently praised in the July 1936 issue of The Delphian Quarterly of Chicago in an article titled “Possibilities of Civilization: What the Small Town Can Do.”

Glaucus and in his Ixion: Only fragments survive of these tragedies by Aeschylus.

Tozzi: Federigo Tozzi (1883–1920), Italian avant-garde writer, and author of Il podere, Tre croci, and Gli egoisti, among other novels.

Monti: Luigi Monti, a minor writer from the Tuscan town of Cortona. Monti ran “Ars Umbra,” a gift shop in Rapallo specializing in arts and crafts from central Italy. In 1932, his son, Rolando Monti, painted a well-known portrait of Pound striding along the Rapallo promenade.