Ezra Pound inspired, through his friendship and his output in poetry and prose, a vast network of literati and scholars in Italy and abroad. The essays collected in this volume exemplify the various ways in which Pound – as a man, artist and critic – was able to engage in dialogue with the intellectuals of his time, in presence and at a distance, through life and work: the frenetic and ramified correspondence with masters and pupils, artists and publishers, as important as and more than the poetic manifestos; the story of the friendship with Carlo Linati, a personal and professional fellowship that lasted for thirty years, sustained by the Como writer’s visits to the American poet’s home in Rapallo; the many intertextual relationships and reciprocal theoretical consonances that link Pound’s work and that of Marshall McLuhan; the appeal published in Corriere della Sera on 30 October 1955, in the name of Giovanni Papini, and the petition, promoted by Vanni Scheiwiller, to free Pound from the criminal asylum; this interweaving of ideas, words and facts that runs through the 20th century is reconstructed also from unpublished material and archive testimonies to offer a glimpse of the different reactions that Pound’s personality, his works and his visions have been able to arouse among his contemporaries.