ABSTRACT
Fascism, as a project to generate a new future, experienced not gold-fever but stone-fever, an unconcealed eagerness to absorb the symbols of the past and make a monument of the present, with its eyes fixed firmly on posterity. Italy’s participation and help expanded to all fronts: military, political, weapons, diplomatic, and propaganda. The predominantly political and diplomatic historiography has contributed strongly to the knowledge of some of the geostrategic and international motives and derivatives of an extremely complex intervention in the field of foreign policy. The post of commander of the Italians in Spain was of great importance within the organisational structure of Fascist military power. It is not possible to understand the political nature of the Italian regime, which gave its name to perhaps the most successful of the European political forms peculiar to the twentieth century, without analysing its imperial nature.
