The Sandro Italico Mussolini School of Fascist Mysticism (Italian: Scuola di mistica fascista Sandro Italico Mussolini) was established in Milan, Italy in 1930 by Niccolò Giani. Its primary goal was to train the future leaders of Italy's National Fascist Party. The school curriculum promoted Fascist mysticism based on the philosophy of Fideism,[1][2][3] the belief that faith and reason were incompatible; Fascist mythology was to be accepted as a "metareality".[4] In 1932, Mussolini described Fascism as "a religious concept of life", saying that Fascists formed a "spiritual community".[4]
- ^ Luigi Emilio Longo, I vincitori della guerra perduta (sezione su Niccolò Giani), Edizioni Settimo sigillo, Roma, 2003, pag.81
- ^ Tomas Carini, Niccolò Giani e la scuola di mistica fascista 1930–1943, Mursia, 2009, pag.130
- ^ Tomas Carini, Niccolò Giani e la scuola di mistica fascista 1930–1943, Mursia, 2009, pag.123
- ^ a b Payne, Stanley G. (1996). A History of Fascism, 1914-1945. Routledge. p. 215. ISBN 9781857285956.