E u r o p e

by Gabriele Adinolfi

ONCE UPON A TIME THE VANGUARD

As a boy the watchword that stood out among us was “Europe Nation”.
Behind that magic formula hided something very much different from an intelectual’s theory,
expressed by a double awareness attributed to: identity and destiny.
At the time the political commitment was not superficial, neurasthenic and sterile as nowadays is.
The militant was neither a consumer nor a tele voter, neither trained to the binary language nor
imagining the revolution either as a flash on the window of a social network or as a gust of tweet or
sms.

Imperium/Empire

by Gabriele Adinolfi

Imperium was not only the source and the attribute of the military command in Rome, but an axial
prerogative, like the sword, the fasces and the sceptre, which, as such, represented the Axis of the
world.
It was originally connected to Lictorian fasces in ancient Roman monarchy, when, to take the
kingship meant especially to be Rex et Pontifex, and so to act as a bridge between the visible and the
invisible, and especially as a landmark.