Revolution ‘ said Mr Adams ‘ took place in the
            minds of the people
            in the fifteen years before Lexington ‘ ,

I take this opening stanza to be a reference to John Adams and the American Revolution, but the entire rest of the Canto is about Italy (there is a reference to Marengo, and famous early victory by Napoleon in Italy, so I take the years referenced to be the very early nineteenth century, though other references, such as to the Medici, counter that – but who ever said a poem had to be chronologically consistent?) and finance and frankly I do not understand how these first lines fit in with the whole.

He gets more ‘normal’ towards the end, but the first half of the Fiftieth Canto has Pound playing a great deal with different line indentations.

Sadly, we also see this line:

Pius sixth, vicar of foolishness, no Jew God
wd. have kept THAT in power.

Arguably, this is the most explicitly anti-semitic line to appear yet.