Journal title ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA
Author/s Andrea Avalli
Publishing Year 2022 Issue 2021/297
Language Italian Pages 28 P. 208-235 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/ic297-oa2
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This article argues that debates over the issue of Etruscan origins shed light on the scientific and ideological inspiration of specific racist theories of Fascism, and their relationship with the Catholic Church on the one hand and with Nazi forms of racism on the other. According to the author, discussions about the racial identity of the Etruscan people are particularly interesting as they highlight the distinction between "biological" racism and antichristian, non-biological racism. As the article shows, Alfred Rosenberg’s negative representation of the Etruscans - aimed at denying the racial legitimacy of the Catholic Church - was accepted in Italy by antichristian Fascist philosophers like Julius Evola and Giulio Cogni. On the contrary, the "biological" racist faction of "La Difesa della razza" promoted Eugen Fischer’s etruscological theory of the "aquiline race" in order to include the Etruscans within Italian racial history and avoid an ideological struggle with the Church.
Keywords: Fascism, Nazism, Nationalism, Racism, Etruscans, Catholicism
Andrea Avalli, La "razza aquilina". Gli Etruschi tra razzismo fascista, razzismo nazista e Chiesa cattolica in "ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA" 297/2021, pp 208-235, DOI: 10.3280/ic297-oa2