Adriano Romualdi - An Italian Fighter of European Spirit

By 

Cimosco

Adriano was the son of Pino Romualdi, first Deputy Secretary of the Republican Fascist Party and then president of the Post-war Fascist party “Italian Social Movement”. He went to University in Rome, where he was the student of the historian De Felice and the philosopher Del Noce 

 In the meanwhile, he began to visit the house of the Traditionalist thinker Baron Julius Evola, and gradually became one of his most assiduous students. Adriano's evolian perennialist interests bothered Pino, who was of a more moderate and politically pragmatic character. 

 On February 1964, he took part in a violent attack on the Communist writer as well as pedophile Pasolini and his companions. In this year he begins the writing of three works that he will publish the next year: Plato; A Culture for Europe; Drieu La Rochelle, the European Myth. 

 In 1966 he wrote the first authorised biography of his teacher Julius Evola, which was also translated in French and Portuguese. 

 He worked as a journalist for virtually all Italian far-right magazines, especially “Ordine Nuovo”. 

 He wrote the preface for multiple works, among which are: Robert Brasillach's “Lettre à Un Soldat De La Classe 60”; Pierre Drieu La Rochelle's “Ideas for a European Revolution”; Adolf Hitler's collection of speeches “The Battle of Berlin”; Oswald Spengler's “Prussian Socialism” 

 At the age of 31, he wrote an essay on Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy and politics and he edited a compilation of Nietzschean writings. These are “Nietzsche and the Egalitarian Mythology” and “Beyond Nihilism. Collection of Friedrich Nietzsche's Aphorism”

 The career of this Genius Europeanist Traditionalist journalist, biographer, historian and philologue was cut short by a car accident in 1973, that would leave him dead at the young age of 32.