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The Aryan peoples are peoples who are particularly active. The
Italian is as diligent as an ant (bienenfleissig). Meanwhile in the eyes of the
Russian, the principal support of civilisation is vodka. His ideal
consists in never doing anything but the indispensable. Our con
ception of work (work, and then more of it!) is one that he sub
mits to as if it were a real curse. the Italians have so many qualities that make us like them.
Italy is the country where intelligence created the notion of the State. The Roman Empire is a great political creation, the greatest of all.
The Italian people's musical sense, its liking for harmonious proportions, the beauty of its race! The Renaissance was the dawn of a new era, in which Aryan man found himself anew.
There's also our own past on Italian soil. A man who is in different to history is a man without hearing, without sight.
Such a man can live, of course—but what a life?
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The magic of Florence and Rome, of Ravenna, Siena, Perugia! Tuscany and Umbria, how lovely they are!
The smallest palazzo in Florence or Rome is worth more than all Windsor Castle. If the English destroy anything in Florence
or Rome, it will be a crime. In Moscow, it wouldn't do anygreat harm; nor in Berlin, unfortunately.
I've seen Rome and Paris, and I must say that Paris, with theexception of the Arc de Triomphe, has nothing on the scale of
the Coliseum, or the Castle of San Angelo, or St. Peter's. Thesemonuments, which are the product of

a collective effort, have ceased to be on the scale of the individual. There's something

queer about the Paris buildings, whether it's those bull's-eye windows, so badly proportioned, or those gables that obliterate
whole façades. If I compare the Pantheon in Rome with the Pantheon in Paris, what a poor building—and what sculptures !
What I saw in Paris has disappeared from my memory : Rome really seized hold of me.
When the Duce came to Berlin, we gave him a magnificent reception. But our journey in Italy, that was something else!
The reception when we arrived, with all the ceremonial. The visit to the Quirinal.
Naples, apart from the castle, might be anywhere in South America. But there's always the courtyard of the royal palace.
What nobility of proportions !
My dearest wish would be to be able to wander about in Italy as an unknown painter.

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Most of Nazi Germany's fascist aesthetics were just shamelessly ripping off the Roman Empire (to an even more obvious extent than America)