How then was this Fascism born; amidst what tumultuous passions, sympathy, hatred, bitterness, and misunderstanding? It wasn't just born in my mind and heart; it was not just born at that meeting held in March 1919 in the small salon in Milan; was born from the deep and perennial need of our Mediterranean and Aryan race, which felt the essential foundations of its existence threatened by a tragic madness and a mythical tale that is unraveling today, in the very place where it was born.