Beaneries: American slang for cheap restaurants and one of Pound's favorite putdowns for universities, as shown in his anti-Semitic tirade in Canto 91:

make your Gestalt, of Kung … and the peripheries: Cf. Canto 94,

a NEW Quattrocento: i.e., a new Renaissance, akin to the Early Renaissance in fifteenth-century Italy.

caught like X. in a forgery: The unexpurgated GK shows “Prof X,” whose identity remains unidentified.

The light of the Sorbonne shone: In April 1231, Pope Gregory IX (c.1145–1241) issued a bull, Parens scientiarum, granting the University of Paris the authority to establish statutes regulating all manner of academic practices in its schools, including the defense of theses.

“University not here for the unusual man … Carl Sandburg: The phrase originally appeared in a letter Pound wrote on February 24, 1925 to art patron and philanthropist Simon Guggenheim (1867–1941). “Prof. S.” refers to Felix E. Schelling (1858–1945), a literature professor and head of the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania when Pound was a student there (cf. note GK 215–16). In the fall of 1916, Pound had written to Schelling recommending that the poet Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) be offered a fellowship “for creative ability” at the university, a proposal the professor rejected. It was also Schelling who told Pound that he was wasting his time pursuing a doctorate, effectively putting an end to his thesis on the Spanish Golden Age poet-dramatist Lope de Vega (1562–1635) (cf. notes GK 28, 61).