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Giulio Cesare Andrea "Julius" Evola (Italian: [ˈɛːvola]; 19 May 1898 – 11 June 1974) was an Italian philosopher, poet, painter, esotericist, and radical-right ideologue. Evola regarded his perspectives and spiritual values as aristocratic, masculine, traditionalist, heroic and defiantly reactionary.

Evola was born in Rome. He served as an artillery officer in the First World War. He later became a Dada artist but gave up painting in his twenties. He said he considered suicide until he had a revelation while reading a Buddhist text. His interests in the early 1920s led him deeper into the occult; he wrote on Western esotericism and of Eastern mysticism, developing his doctrine of "magical idealism".