The ship by which Rabindranath was to go to Italy had six cabins reserved for him. The persons who accompanied him included Rathindranath with his familyand Gourgopal Ghosh. Prasanta Chandra Mahalanabis went with his wife in the next steamer and met Rabindranath in Rome. This time in the tour to Europe Prasanta Chandra Mahalanabis and his wife , Nirmalkumari accompanied him. They were his day to day accompaniment. The poet was taken by a special train from Naples to Rome. He was kept in a hotel, best in Rome on 30th May, and Prof Formichi acted as his local guide and interpreter. His duty was not to allow any person, anty-Mussolini, to meet him and to say about the glory of Mussolini.
The reporters of different media surrounded him like bees round the honey comb to listen his melodious voice. I could not believe that I had at last come to the country where the great men like Shelly, Keats , Byron Gette. Browning were born. .
The poet was greeted in Rome in several ways. While he was delivering a lecture in Rome, Mussolini and his party were present there. The poet was honoured in a colossium hall with a gathering of 25,000/30,000.
Croce initially supported Mussolini's Fascist government that took power in 1922. The assassination by Fascists of Giacomo Matteotti in June 1924 shook Croce's support for Mussolini. In May 1925 Croce was one of the signatories the Manifesto of the Anti-Fascist Intellectuals which had been written by Croce himself; however in June of the same year he voted in the Senate in support of the Mussolini government. He later explained that he had hoped that the support for Mussolini in parliament would weaken the more extreme Fascists who he believed were responsible for Matteotti's murder.
Croce was seriously threatened by Mussolini's regime, though the only act of physical violence he suffered at the hands of the fascists was the ransacking of his home and library in Naples in November 1926. Although he managed to stay outside prison thanks to his reputation, he remained under surveillance, and his academic work was kept in obscurity by the government, to the extent that no mainstream newspaper or academic publication ever referred to him. Croce later coined the term onagrocrazia (literally "government by asses") to emphasize the anti-intellectual and boorish tendencies of parts of the Fascist regime. However Croce's description of Fascism as anti-intellectual ignored the fact that many Italian intellectuals at the time actively supported Mussolini's regime, including Croce's former friend and colleague Gentile. Croce also described Fascism as malattia morale (literally "moral illness"). When Mussolini's government adopted antisemitic policies in 1938, Croce was the only non-Jewish intellectual who refused to complete a government questionnaire designed to collect information on the racial background of Italian intellectuals.The poet knew , " His most interesting philosophical ideas are divided into three works: Aesthetic (1902), Logic (1908), and Philosophy of the practical(1908), but his complete work is spread over 80 books and 40 years worth of publications in his own bimonthly literary magazine, La Critica."
