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On Mirella Serri, Fascist Culture, and Redeemed Intellectuals

During the Spring of 1925, a major fissure opened within Italian political and cultural life, one that not only divided the nation's two greatest philosophers (Giovanni Gentile and Benedetto Croce), who had once been close friends and collaborators, but even more profoundly lacerated the nation's entire intellectual class. The year had begun with a dramatic speech by Mussolini to the Chamber of Deputies on January 3, 1925. He assumed full responsibility for the assassination of Giacomo Matteotti, a Socialist representative who had argued that the Spring 1924 elections should be invalidated because of the atmosphere of intimidation that made fair...