Mary de Rachewiltz

Mary de Rachewiltz appears in I, robot? AI and consciousness through an obituary-style segment about her childhood, translation work, and relationship to Ezra Pound. The source says she was born to Pound and Olga, was raised by foster parents in South Tyrol, and later defended Pound’s lucidity while continuing to translate The Cantos.

The episode frames Mary as a figure of real affection and moral complication. Her 1985 dual-language English-Italian version of The Cantos becomes both a literary achievement and an act of loyalty to a father whose fascist commitments and wartime conduct cannot be ignored.

Connections

• Ezra Pound and The Cantos - father and central translation object.
• Ideologically Compromised Art - interpretive frame for loyalty to powerful art by a compromised figure.
• The Intelligence and Economist Podcasts - source show and publisher.