Nemesi Italia (Nemesis Italy, NI) was a far-right youth organization based in Rome. Founded in 2018, NI focused on organizing Rome's high school and university students around a vaguely-conceived neo-fascist program whose objective was to "build a community of purpose and destiny that can help bring about a new human figure." Based around four guiding principles, NI promoted the establishment of "a new culture" which would help its members "rediscover" themselves "in a world in identity crisis," the discipline of "self-defense," both physical and intellectual, the importance of "connecting with nature" and rekindling one's awareness of "the harmony of natural perfection," and the establishment of a "community of destiny" (or a communal spirit) among the organization's members, similar to "the Roman Legions and the Germanic Student Brothers of past centuries" (Fig. 1). Although vaguely neo-fascist in both rhetoric and aesthetics, NI has published social media posts featuring quotes from known interwar and Cold War fascist intellectuals, including the infamous writings of the interwar Italian philosopher Julius Evola (Fig. 2).
At the top of the poster the text reads: "Anime armate" (Armed Souls), which was borrowed from the Trieste-based neo-fascist rock 'n roll group Ultima Frontiera's (Final Frontier, UF) 2010 album by the same name. The poster situates NI's logo – which features an upper-case "N" with an upward-facing arrow – within a symbol which closely resembles a Nazi "black sun" (AKA "sun wheel"). Beneath the phrase "Armed Souls" is NI's social media handle: @nemesi_italia.
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