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Please join us on Wednesday 17 September for the next CRAM seminar:</div>

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 Pound’s Malatesta Cantos: From </a></u><i><u><a style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); margin: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="3" title="https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/school-of-culture-and-communication/our-research/groups-and-resource-centre/critical-research-association-melbourne/events/events-calendars/ezra-pounds-malatesta-cantos-from-amor-mundi-to-amor-fati" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWA9b3b15cc-3d4f-3df0-1af9-36f535bd65b0" href="https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/school-of-culture-and-communication/our-research/groups-and-resource-centre/critical-research-association-melbourne/events/events-calendars/ezra-pounds-malatesta-cantos-from-amor-mundi-to-amor-fati">amor

 mundi</a></u></i><u><a style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); margin: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="3" title="https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/school-of-culture-and-communication/our-research/groups-and-resource-centre/critical-research-association-melbourne/events/events-calendars/ezra-pounds-malatesta-cantos-from-amor-mundi-to-amor-fati" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWAe7ff38ea-afa1-82e8-024c-f83241d90372" href="https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/school-of-culture-and-communication/our-research/groups-and-resource-centre/critical-research-association-melbourne/events/events-calendars/ezra-pounds-malatesta-cantos-from-amor-mundi-to-amor-fati"> to

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 fati</a></u></i><u><a style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); margin: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="3" title="https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/school-of-culture-and-communication/our-research/groups-and-resource-centre/critical-research-association-melbourne/events/events-calendars/ezra-pounds-malatesta-cantos-from-amor-mundi-to-amor-fati" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWA00f227a1-a169-ca85-69de-af78bec376cd" href="https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/school-of-culture-and-communication/our-research/groups-and-resource-centre/critical-research-association-melbourne/events/events-calendars/ezra-pounds-malatesta-cantos-from-amor-mundi-to-amor-fati">,

 with Miguel Vatter</a></u></b></span></p>

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<b>Wednesday 17 September 2025, 4:30pm-6pm</b></div>

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<b>William Macmahon Ball Theatre, Old Arts Building</b></div>

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<b>University of Melbourne, Parkville Campus</b></div>

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 and vorticist poetics and with questions of political philosophy. I argue that Pound’s approach to Malatesta reveals an original reception and working through of themes that characterize Tuscan political and philosophical thought, from the first reception

 of radical Aristotelianism in Cavalcanti and Dante to the subsequent reception of radical Platonism in Renaissance humanists. I contextualize Pound’s adherence to fascism both in relation to the motif of the Renaissance state as a “work of art” (Burkhardt,

 Nietzsche) and in relation to the civic republican tradition and its crisis from the 13<sup>th</sup> to the 15<sup>th</sup> centuries. My hypothesis is that the overall theme of the Malatesta Cantos is the Machiavellian one of the conflict between fortuna and virtù and

 its resolution in an astral theology whose central principle is amor fati.</span></p>

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 political thought, biopolitics, and political theology. His previous book is Living Law. Jewish Political Theology from Hermann Cohen to Hannah Arendt (Oxford 2021). His forthcoming book with EUP is Machiavelli and the Religion of the Ancients.</span></p>

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Journals in Theory (ARC Discovery Project)</a><br>

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Critical Research Association Melbourne (CRAM)</a><br>

Faculty of Arts<br>

The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 Australia<br>

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