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Prince '''Boris de Rachewiltz''' ('''Boris Baratti''') is an Italian-Russian [[Egyptologist]] and writer on Africa and the ancient world.


{{Short description|Italian Egyptologist}}
He is connected by marriage to [[Ezra Pound]], having married in 1946 Pound's daughter Mary with [[Olga Rudge]]. Pound retreated to a property at [[Brunnenburg]] in the Italian Tyrol, in the de Rachewiltz family from 1927, and owned by Boris and Mary, after his 1958 release from hospital. He wrote some later parts of ''[[The Cantos]]'' there.
'''Boris de Rachewiltz''' (born as '''Luciano Baratti'''<ref name="Franceschini">{{cite book|last=Franceschini|first=Christoph|title=Geheimdienste, Agenten, Spione. Südtirol im Fadenkreuz fremder Mächte|publisher=Edition Raetia|year=2020|isbn=978-88-7283-735-1|page=142-143}}</ref>) (1926–1997) was an Italian [[Egyptologist]] and writer on Africa and the ancient world.<ref name="Pound-Encyc">{{cite book|last=Tryphonopoulos|first=Demetres P.
|title=The Ezra Pound encyclopedia|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|year=2005|isbn=978-0-313-30448-4|page=250}}</ref>


== Biography ==
Mary has translated English poetry into Italian: her father's, but also [[Robinson Jeffers]] and [[E. E. Cummings]], [[Ronald Duncan]] and [[Denise Levertov]].
Boris de Rachewiltz, brother of the historian [[Igor de Rachewiltz]],<ref>Walravens, Hartmut. ''In Memoriam: Igor de Rachewiltz (1929–2016)'', in ''Monumenta Serica – Journal of Oriental Studies'', 65/2017, 2, p. 445–451.</ref> married [[Mary de Rachewiltz|Mary]], the daughter of [[Ezra Pound]] and [[Olga Rudge]], in 1946.<ref name="Pound-Encyc"/> He studied Egyptology at the [[Pontifical Biblical Institute]] in [[Rome]] from 1951 to 1955, and at the [[Cairo University]] from 1955 to 1957. After archaeological and ethnographic fieldwork in Upper Egypt and the Sudan, he taught as a professor at the [[Pontifical Urban University]].<ref name="Pound-Encyc"/>


Under the alias ''Brando'' he worked as an informant for the Italian domestic intelligence agency [[SISDE]].<ref name="Franceschini"/> Defendant in 1994 in a trial of [[Far right-wing|extreme right-wing militants]], he was later acquitted for not having committed the act.<ref> "Neofascisti reclutavano mercenari", [[Corriere della Sera]], Nov 23, 1994.</ref>
Their children, [[Siegfried de Rachewiltz|Sigifredo (Siegfried) Walter]] and [[Patrizia de Rachewiltz|Patrizia]], are also both writers, Siegfried writing on the Tyrol.


==Works==
==Works==
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*''Liriche amorose degli antichi egiziani'' (1955)
*''Liriche amorose degli antichi egiziani'' (1955)
*''Il libro dei morti degli antichi egiziani'' (1958)
*''Il libro dei morti degli antichi egiziani'' (1958)
*''Incantesimi e scongiuri degli antichi egiziani.(1958)
*''Incantesimi e scongiuri degli antichi egiziani'' (1958)
*''The rock tomb of Irw-K3-Pth.'' (1960)
*''The rock tomb of Irw-K3-Pth.'' (1960)
*''Incontro con l'arte Africana'' (1959) as ''Introduction to African Art'' (1966) translated by [[Peter Whigham]]
*''Incontro con l'arte Africana'' (1959) as ''Introduction to African Art'' (1966) translated by [[Peter Whigham]]
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*''Vita nell'antico Egitto'' (1962)
*''Vita nell'antico Egitto'' (1962)
*''Black Eros: Sexual Customs of Africa from Prehistory to the Present Day'' (1964)
*''Black Eros: Sexual Customs of Africa from Prehistory to the Present Day'' (1964)
*''La Valle dei Re e delle Regine'' (1965)
*''La Valle dei Re e delle Regine'' (Forma e colore: 37) (1965)
*''Processo in verso'' (1973)
*''Processo in verso'' (1973)
*''Sesso magico nell'Africa nera'' (1983)
*''Sesso magico nell'Africa nera'' (1983)
*''Gli antichi Egizi. Immagini, scene e documenti di vita quotidiana'' (1987)
*''Gli antichi Egizi. Immagini, scene e documenti di vita quotidiana'' (1987)
*''L'occhio del faraone.'' (1990) Rachewiltz, Boris de, Valenti Gomez i Oliver
*''L'occhio del faraone.'' (1990) with Valenti Gomez i Oliver
*''7 Greeks'' (1995) with [[Guy Davenport]]
*''7 Greeks'' (1995) with [[Guy Davenport]]
*''Roma Egizia. Culti, templi e devinità egizie nella Roma Imperiale'' (1999) with Anna Maria Partini
*''Roma Egizia. Culti, templi e devinità egizie nella Roma Imperiale'' (1999) with Anna Maria Partini
*''I miti egizi'' (2000)
*''I miti egizi'' (2000)

==Works by Mary de Rachewiltz==

*''30 Poesie: Versione Di Mary De Rachewiltz'' (1961) translations of [[E. E. Cummings]]
*''Maschere Tirolese'' (1964) editor
*''Il Diapason'' (1965)
*''Discretions'' (1971) memoirs
*''A Catalogue of the Poetry Notebooks of Ezra Pound'' (1980) with Diane Ross and Donald Gallup
*''Whose World? Selected Poems'' (1998)
*''Veneziane Cantos'' (2001) Italian translations from ''The Cantos''
*''For the Wrong Reason'' (2002)
*''Moscardino'' (2004) with Enrico Pea


==References==
==References==
{{reflist}}

*Anne Conover (2001), ''Olga Rudge and Ezra Pound''
*Anne Conover (2001), ''Olga Rudge and Ezra Pound''


==See also==
==See also==
{{Ezra Pound}}
*[[Tulli Papyrus]]


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Latest revision as of 13:47, 22 June 2024

Boris de Rachewiltz (born as Luciano Baratti[1]) (1926–1997) was an Italian Egyptologist and writer on Africa and the ancient world.[2]

Biography

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Boris de Rachewiltz, brother of the historian Igor de Rachewiltz,[3] married Mary, the daughter of Ezra Pound and Olga Rudge, in 1946.[2] He studied Egyptology at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome from 1951 to 1955, and at the Cairo University from 1955 to 1957. After archaeological and ethnographic fieldwork in Upper Egypt and the Sudan, he taught as a professor at the Pontifical Urban University.[2]

Under the alias Brando he worked as an informant for the Italian domestic intelligence agency SISDE.[1] Defendant in 1994 in a trial of extreme right-wing militants, he was later acquitted for not having committed the act.[4]

Works

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  • Massime degli antichi egiziani (1954) as Maxims of the Ancient Egyptians (1987) translated by Guy Davenport
  • Liriche amorose degli antichi egiziani (1955)
  • Il libro dei morti degli antichi egiziani (1958)
  • Incantesimi e scongiuri degli antichi egiziani (1958)
  • The rock tomb of Irw-K3-Pth. (1960)
  • Incontro con l'arte Africana (1959) as Introduction to African Art (1966) translated by Peter Whigham
  • An Introduction to Egyptian Art (1960) translated by R. H. Boothroyd
  • Vita nell'antico Egitto (1962)
  • Black Eros: Sexual Customs of Africa from Prehistory to the Present Day (1964)
  • La Valle dei Re e delle Regine (Forma e colore: 37) (1965)
  • Processo in verso (1973)
  • Sesso magico nell'Africa nera (1983)
  • Gli antichi Egizi. Immagini, scene e documenti di vita quotidiana (1987)
  • L'occhio del faraone. (1990) with Valenti Gomez i Oliver
  • 7 Greeks (1995) with Guy Davenport
  • Roma Egizia. Culti, templi e devinità egizie nella Roma Imperiale (1999) with Anna Maria Partini
  • I miti egizi (2000)

References

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  1. ^ a b Franceschini, Christoph (2020). Geheimdienste, Agenten, Spione. Südtirol im Fadenkreuz fremder Mächte. Edition Raetia. p. 142-143. ISBN 978-88-7283-735-1.
  2. ^ a b c Tryphonopoulos, Demetres P. (2005). The Ezra Pound encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 250. ISBN 978-0-313-30448-4.
  3. ^ Walravens, Hartmut. In Memoriam: Igor de Rachewiltz (1929–2016), in Monumenta Serica – Journal of Oriental Studies, 65/2017, 2, p. 445–451.
  4. ^ "Neofascisti reclutavano mercenari", Corriere della Sera, Nov 23, 1994.
  • Anne Conover (2001), Olga Rudge and Ezra Pound

See also

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