Reghini also introduced him to the writings of René Guénon (1886–1951), founder of the Traditionalist movement. As a student of the famous occultist and Freemason Arturo Reghini (1878–1946), Evola became part of the UR Group, a loose association of Italian occultists, and devoted himself to alchemy and ritual magic. In 1922, however, he abandoned painting and plunged into an intensive study of Oriental philosophy, occultism, and magic. After serving in the Italian army during the last year of the First World War, he began a career as a poet and painter, winning a reputation as the leading representative of the Dadaist movement in Italy. Born Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola, into an aristocratic Sicilian family, Evola (1898–1974) rebelled against his family’s strict Catholicism in his teens and became involved in avant-garde circles in Rome. Italian philosopher, writer, occultist, and Fascist.
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