It was one word, dodici.” This word, the Italian for 12, in the first of Pound’s cantos he read, referred to a well-known restaurant in Verona, where Wright was living at the time.

“Allusion” was borrowed into English in the middle of the 16th century. It derives from the Latin verb “alludere,” meaning “to refer to, to play with, or to jest,” as does its cousin ...

Polish Posters: Art and Allusion opens Friday, April 4, and closes on Saturday, May 24. The posters will be shown in the Museum’s Synergy Space Gallery, Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St., and in ...