The Traditionalist: The Keeper of the Gifts

by Alessandro Gnocchi

[Italian daily] Il Foglio

November 6, 2014

[Notre-Dame de Chartres Cathedral, June 28, 2014]

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Traditionalist, yes, but not distant from the world,

as some of us would like to be in times of ruin and destruction.

Talking about the Traditionalist is a little like seventy years ago when Leo Longanesi said “Let’s talk about the elephant.” (1) The