The Twenty-Fourth Canto begins with one of Pound’s depictions of fifteenth century Italian record keeping and logistics. A little more interesting than usual (they are epistolary) and then followed by several pages of narrative and descriptive poetry:

And he in his young youth, in the wake of Odysseus
To Cithera (a. d. 1413)  ” dove fu Elena rapta da Paris “
Dinners in orange groves, prows attended of dolphins,
Vestige of Rome at Pola, fair wind as far as Naxos

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