(Published in Gerarchia, October 1932)
By Benito Mussolini
More than once in its history, Rome became a mediator and balancer of antithetical universal ideas between East and West. The first time was after the Samnite War, the second was when St. Paul called himself Roman, the third was the Renaissance. Today is the fourth time. Today Rome has its own idea and a complex of conceptions of a universalistic character, in which the social and human labour of the last century flows and is composed.
