A significant contribution to the knowledge of Italian intellectual history during the fascist Ventennio (1922 – 1943) was made by the Croatian intellectual Bogdan Radica (1904 – 1993). This polymath began his long and fruitful career as an essayist and journalist in Italy, where, along with his intellectual maturation, he made contacts with the most prominent representatives of political and cultural life, in whose presence he learned the extent of the European interwar crisis. As a member of the Italian intellectual environment, Radica directly witnessed the spread and establishment of the fascist regime on the European historical stage. As a correspondent for the newspapers Nova Evropa and Obzor, Radica zealously informed the Yugoslav public about events on the Apennine peninsula, often translating articles and essays by both fascist champions and opponents of the regime. His initial reticence will gradually give way to increasingly pronounced liberal and anti-totalitarian attitudes, which was undoubtedly influenced by Radica's dialogue with anti-fascist intellectuals, such as Guglielmo Ferrero, Gaetano Salvemini, Benedetto Croce, Adriano Tilgher and Carlo Sforza, but also with supporters of the regime, such as Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Giovanni Papini and Luigi Pirandello. The catastrophe of the Second World War marked a radical turn in Radica's private and professional life. Witnessing the opportunities in post-war Yugoslavia, Radica began to deal with political issues, primarily as part of Croatian national integration currents, where he applied the experiences gained from Italy and the West to his homeland. Since then, his criticism of fascism and communism, as well as D'Annunzio's and Mussolini's imperialism have had become stronger, while Radica contrasts these phenomena with the Mediterranean as an area of universalism, humanism and freedom.