Bibliographic record
Abstract
RAPALLO AND THE OCCASIONS OF THE CANTOS Pound lived mostly in and near Rapallo, just south of Genoa, from 1924 to his death, and this place and its landscape permeated his mature poetry. In Cantos xvii – xxx we find many Mediterranean settings in which Odysseus and his avatars rest from their voyages, and the theme is repeated in the “fertility Cantos” of the 1930s, especially xxxix , xlvii , and xlix , where Pound creates his own rituals out of old Rapallo customs (the “sepulchres,” i.e., floral church decorations, of Maundy Thursday, the lights floated in the bay on summer nights). Pound wanted to evoke a true religion of the people, beyond (or before) Judaism and Christianity, and used the material at hand, for example, Christian ceremonies, that looked as if they may well have derived from pagan customs. In the 1920s Rapallo provided the model for an aesthetic pleasance, in the 1930s the backdrop for a more strenuous “totalitarian” vision, a religion of sexuality, abundance, and fertility. In the 1940s it became the lost paradise of The Pisan Cantos , that shuttle throughout between the beautiful Pisan landscape and memories of the Tigullio (as the Bay of Rapallo is called), where Pound had passed the greater part of his maturity.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.025 | 0.005 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".