Summary of Robert D. Kaplan's Adriatic

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#1 The entrance to the Christian church in Venice is adorned with statues of fat, swollen putti, or angels, who celebrate the primal urge to life. The church was rebuilt after the World War II bombing.

#2 I first visited Mistra, a ruined medieval city in Greece’s southern Peloponnese, in 1978. I was obsessed with the town’s beauty, and it led to an enduring interest in its most important figure, the Neoplatonist philosopher Georgios Gemistos Plethon.

#3 The Tempio Malatestiano in Rimini, Italy, is the final resting place of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, a mercenary commander who lived for years under a death sentence. He transformed the church into one of the most striking Renaissance temples.

#4 The Tempio Malatestiano, built by Sigismondo Malatesta, is a perfect work of art. It is the artistic epic that allows civilization to endure and begin anew. For Pound, manly risk is almost inseparable from the creation of the artistic tour de force.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Apr 21, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669390435

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Contents

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Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

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Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The entrance to the Christian church in Venice is adorned with statues of fat, swollen putti, or angels, who celebrate the primal urge to life. The church was rebuilt after the World War II bombing.

#2

I first visited Mistra, a ruined medieval city in Greece’s southern Peloponnese, in 1978. I was obsessed with the town’s beauty, and it led to an enduring interest in its most important figure, the Neoplatonist philosopher Georgios Gemistos Plethon.

#3

The Tempio Malatestiano in Rimini, Italy, is the final resting place of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, a mercenary commander who lived for years under a death sentence. He transformed the church into one of the most striking Renaissance temples.

#4

The Tempio Malatestiano, built by Sigismondo Malatesta, is a perfect work of art. It is the artistic epic that allows civilization to endure and begin anew. For Pound, manly risk is almost inseparable from the creation of the artistic tour de force.

#5

Pound’s writing in the Malatesta Cantos is superficially infectious. It is just so relentlessly obscure and panoramic, sending you constantly to the encyclopedia.

#6

Pound’s poetry is often unreadable and makes no sense, and his translations are bad. He was deeply estranged from the United States and any place where he had a personal history.

#7

Modernist poetry, which was pioneered by Pound, Eliot, and Joyce, arose out of the French Symbolist movement. Each poet or writer must invent a language of his own, in which he conveys images and metaphors that suggest his personal experience of consciousness to the reader.

#8

The poet Ezra Pound found the medieval Latin version of the Odyssey by Andreas Divus in a Left Bank bookstall. He immediately became attracted to the Nekyia, which is the most pervasively archaic part of the Odyssey. He translated the medieval Latin into English, and that was the basis of what would eventually become the first Canto.

#9

Travel is the ultimate rebuke to the servitude of what the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset calls the mass-man, who in this technological era