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| Roger II Crowned by Christ, Chiesa di Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio (Martorana), Palermo, 12th century |
"It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King, as spoken by Gandalf the White [1]
Duosiciliano monarchial authority began with the Norman conquest of Southern Italy and the ascension of King Roger the Great in the Cathedral of Palermo on Christmas Day in the year of Our Lord 1130. With the deposition of William III of Sicily, the Hauteville dynasty fell to the Hohenstaufen and Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI (Henry I of Sicily) was crowned king in 1194. The boundaries of the great kingdom would endure more or less intact for nearly 731 years, though, following the War of the Sicilian Vespers (1282 to 1302), sovereignty over the island and mainland portions of the Kingdom, Sicily and Naples respectively, were often contested and controlled by rival Angevin, Aragonese, Habsburg, and Bourbon dynasties. Even the House of Savoy, under Victor Amadeus II, briefly controlled Sicily from 1713 to 1720 before renouncing it for the Kingdom of Sardinia. The crowns of Sicily and Naples were formally united again on 8 December 1815, the Feast of Immaculate Conception, and Ferdinand I (formerly III of Sicily and IV of Naples) was recognized as the King of the Two Sicilies. Except for the brief Republican and Napoleonic interregnum in the early 19th century, the ancient and storied realm was finally brought low in 1861 by the pirate Garibaldi and the soi-disant “Gentleman King” (Re Galatuomo) Vittorio Emanuel II of Sardinia.
Ruled as an internal colony for the past 160 years by the House of Savoy and its Democratic-Republican successors after WWII, the regions of the former Kingdom of the Two Sicilies have remarkably retained much of their historical identity despite the attempts to create “Italians” out of them. To be sure Modernity and the degeneration of the castes (i.e. egalitarianism) have taken their toll, but the peoples of the south still retain much of their distinctive ethnocultural qualities (faith, language, culture, etc.), which boasts ancient occidental and oriental lineage. Like the rest of the West, the subversion goes back centuries, however, the worst corruption has taken place in the last few decades with the virulent spread of secular globalism. Ironically, the region's economic "backwardness" may have temporarily slowed down the corruption in comparison to our northern neighbors. With a proper reorientation, in other words, a return to traditional spiritual and aristocratic values, these losses can be reversed and corrected.
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| The personification of the Two Sicilies |
Clearly, the restoration of the Crown will not be possible without the return to traditional principles and institutions antithetical to the disordered Revolutionary mindset besetting the masses (and in some cases the Royal Houses themselves). Imagine, if you will, a pretender declaring himself king today without the support of an aristocratic order. The idea is ludicrous. At the behest of the incumbent demagogues, the would-be monarch would be spurned or mocked by the malleable rabble as a crank, if not locked up (or worse) as a menace to their precious democracy and spurious “immortal principles,” Liberté, égalité, fraternité. [2] An elite, grounded in aristocratic and spiritual values, rather than a modern materialistic ruling class obsessed with dehumanizing progressive absurdities, will be the foundation for the return of the King and a rectifying traditional (organic and hierarchal) social order.
Despite the inane and demotic jargon of the Marxists, the demos are passive and will not rise up on their own. We’ve repeatedly seen this in the past and we’re witnessing it again today as the vast majority of the people are dispirited and passively accepting the detrimental and abusive actions of corrupt political and economic institutions. Effete and docile, not to mention overly medicated and fat, the modern West is kept in check with bread and circuses, viz., sex, drugs and welfare.
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| "The Black Prince," Junio Valerio Borghese |
As the illusion of progress dissipates, the liberal-democratic dark age will eventually come to an end and we counter-revolutionaries need to be prepared to rise to the occasion or we shall see a repeat of past failures and the return of Caesarism, Bonapartism or worse, Bolshevism.
Righting the ship that is Western Civilization, our descendants will one day look back in horror and regret at the current epoch as a historical anomaly, an unspeakable dystopian nightmare straight out of the prophetic pages of Huxley and Orwell. [4] Until then, it is our duty as men of the right to keep the faith and continue to strive for this actualization. Like the intrepid Norman adventurers of old, who, through the strength of arms and shrewd diplomacy, steadfastly forged a kingdom for themselves from the disparate warring factions of Southern Italy, we shall see the old Kingdom rise again and the line of kings restored. Viva ‘o Rre!
~ Giovanni di Napoli, January 7th, the Feast of the Holy Family
Notes:
[1] The Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1994, p.861
[2] “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.”
[3] The Anni di piombo (Years of Lead) refers to a period of upheaval and political violence carried out by militant far-left and far-right terrorist groups for the most part in Northern Italy. The Golpe Borghese (Borghese coup) was the aborted Neo-fascist coup d'etat by the "Black Prince," Junio Valerio Borghese (1906-1974).
[4] Aldous Huxley was the author of Brave New World (1931) and George Orwell was the author of Animal Farm (1945) and 1984 (1949).
