Italy finally has its empire. A Fascist empire, to be sure, upon which the desire and the power of Roman Fascism have impressed their indelible marks. Benito Mussolini spoke these words on the 9th of May 1936, after Italian troops had inflicted a final blow to the Abyssinian armies, and Italy established its long desired ‘Impero’, its empire. Of course, Mussolini addressed the huge crowd on the Piazza Venezia in Rome not in Latin, but in Italian.1 Who translated his speech into Latin? For whom?