Guido De Giorgio
Guido Lupo Maria De Giorgio (3 October 1890 – 27 December 1957), was an Italian esotericist and writer.
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Biography
Guido De Giorgio was born in San Lupo. After graduating in philosophy, he moved to Tunisia where he worked as an Italian teacher. There he came into contact with Islamic esotericism through a local fraternity. Moving to Paris after World War I, he met René Guénon and became his friend, collaborating with him in writing articles in the two major French esoteric journals of the time, Le Voile d'Isis and L'initiation.
Returning to Italy in the 1920s, he was part of the Ur Group, writing in the magazine of the same name under the pseudonym Havismat, and then in 1930 as animator together with Julius Evola of the magazine La Torre, in which he came to theorize a kind of "Sacred Fascism."
He will lead the last years of his life as an ascetic in an old rectory in the Piedmont mountains near Mondovi. De Giorgio is for this reason called The Wild Initiate. He also met Padre Pio. The encounter is recounted in Ciò che mormora il vento del Gargano.
In The Roman Tradition[1], De Giorgio accuses contemporary Europe of becoming scientistic and stifling man's spiritual quest. The solution according to De Giorgio lies in returning to an authentic conception of spiritual and temporal authority, in a newfound "harmony between Contemplation and Action," and in the encounter between the Western values of Romanism and the Eastern values of Christianity.
This work, whose original title is The Shining Emblem of Power. Introduction to the Doctrine of Holy Roman Fascism, was offered in typescript form to Benito Mussolini at Christmas 1939 (or perhaps in May 1938).
In God and the Poet De Giorgio pours the mystical experience derived from his ascetic practice. None of his works were published while he was alive; some would remain unpublished.
Guido De Giorgio died in Mondovì. His son Havis de Giorgio, who died prematurely, was a gold medalist for military valor.
Works
- La Tradizione romana (1973, edited by Franco Pintore; new edition with preface by Gianfranco de Turris, 1989).
- Dio e il Poeta (1985).
- L'instant et l'éternité, et autres textes sur la Tradition (1987).
- Ciò che mormora il vento del Gargano (1999).[2]
- Aforismi e poesie (1999).
- Prospettive della Tradizione (1999).
- Studi su Dante (2017)
- Tradizione e realizzazione spirituale (2018)
- Il problema della scuola (2019)
Notes
- ↑ A work brought to completion shortly after the mid-1930s but published posthumously in 1973, after the manuscript was found in the spring of 1970 and submitted to Evola for judgment.
- ↑ A work consecrated to the account of the journey made, on a Christmas day in the early 1950s, by De Giorgio to meet Father Pio of Pietrelcina.
References
- Iacovella, Angelo (2006). "Guido De Giorgio e il 'Fascismo Sacro'." In: Gianfranco De Turris, ed., Esoterismo e fascismo. Roma: Edizioni Mediterranee.
