Una passione incerta. Brevi note sull’Italia e la Legione dell’arcangelo Michele negli anni Trenta

Abstract: This essay deals with the Italian government's relations with the Romanian radical right in the 1930s. Those relations were significant, but surprisingly less so than one might expect. The most important movement of the Romanian radical right, the Legion of the Archangel Michael, was not even the one to which the government in Rome showed greater sympathy than other currents and exponents of the same area. Moreover, at the end of the 1930s, Italian politicians and diplomats were expecting a political turnaround in Romania that they liked above all from the initiative of King Carol II. For both Italians and Romanians, the national interests of their countries were more important than ideological affinity.