Drawing on personal conversations with those who knew him and new documentation never before made public, including letters from the Hakl and Scaligero archives, the author traces Evola’s activities-including his time on the run and living under assumed names-in Italy, Germany, and Austria from 1943 into the mid-1950s. In this exploration of Evola’s inner and outer life from World War II into the early 1950s, Gianfranco de Turris, who knew Evola when he was alive and is the executor of his estate, offers a new portrait of Julius Evola and debunks many of the pseudo-myths about his activities during the war. Often considered a pillar of Neo-Fascist thought, Evola opposed Fascism and called himself a “radical traditionalist.” Draws on personal conversations with those who knew Evola, new documentation never before made public, and letters from the Hakl and Scaligero archivesīaron Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola, known to the English-speaking world as Julius Evola (1898–1974), was an Italian philosopher, magician, painter, occultist, Orientalist, linguist, and champion mountain climber.Clarifies Evola’s relations with Nazism and Fascism and reveals how he passionately rejected both ideologies because they were totalitarian.
Traces the Baron’s activities in Italy, Germany, and Austria during World War II.An intimate portrait of Evola and his wartime activities that rebuts many of the Fascist pseudo-myths about him
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