Antonio Scurati: “Italians and Westerners have lost their sense of history”

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While Giorgia Meloni came to power, a hundred years after the march on Rome, the author of the “M” trilogy (like Mussolini) compares fascism and populism.

Interview by Anna Bonalume

Dyears the last volume of the trilogy M, which will be published in France next year, the writer Antonio Scurati recounts the fatal three years, 1938-1940, the culmination of the self-delusion of fascist Italy, which bows to the infamy of racial laws and alliance with Nazi Germany. One hundred years after the march on Rome and following the installation of the first government since the post-war period led by an extreme right-wing force with post-fascist origins, the Italian writer deciphers for Point the current political moment.

Point : You said: “The idea that on the threshold of the centenary of the march on Rome, the heirs of this history and of these ideas could enter the government strikes me as frankly frightening. This idea became reality. Do you think n…

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