The poet and translator Mary de Rachewiltz celebrated her centenary this week at Brunnenburg Castle in the Italian Tyrol, where she has lived for decades. Author of poetry collections such as Whose world? (1998) and childhood memories Discretions (1971), Mary de Rachewiltz has also stood out for having translated into Italian the work of her father, Ezra Pound, collected in The Cantos (1985) and Venetian songs (2001).