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==Political activism after the war== [[Image:Junio Valerio Borghese.jpg|thumb|200px|Borghese in 1970]] With his record as a war hero and his support of Fascism, he became a figurehead for pro-fascist, anti-communist groups in the immediate post-war period, acquiring the nickname ''Black Prince''. Borghese wrote a supportive introduction, affirming his political ideology of an idealistic [[neo-fascist]] new aristocracy meritocratically based purely on character, to [[far right]] revolutionary-conservative theorist [[Julius Evola]]'s book ''[[Men Among the Ruins]]'' [https://archive.today/20130125154535/http://forum.hyeclub.com/showthread.php?t=9193].<ref>[[Julius Evola|Evola, Julius]] (1953). ''Gli Uomini e le Rovine''. Roma: Edizioni dell'Ascia.</ref> He later wrote a memoir of his wartime exploits, published as ''Sea Devils'' in 1954. He was associated with the [[Movimento Sociale Italiano]] (MSI), the neo-fascist party formed in the post-World War II period by former supporters of the dictator [[Benito Mussolini]]. Later, advocating a harder line which the MSI was not able or willing to uphold, he broke from the MSI to form an even stauncher neofascist formation, known as the [[National Front (Italy 1967)|Fronte Nazionale]]. ===Attempted coup=== Following a last minute aborted ''[[coup d'état]]'' plot which fizzled out on the night of 8 December 1970 (the [[Feast of the Immaculate Conception]]), referred to as the [[Golpe Borghese]], he was forced to cross the border to avoid arrest and interrogation. In 1984, ten years after Borghese's death, the [[Court of Cassation (Italy)|Supreme Court of Cassation]] ruled that no ''coup d'état'' attempt had happened, in the sense that it was just a "meeting of four or five sixty-year-olds".<ref name=storia>{{in lang|it}} [http://www.lastoriasiamonoi.rai.it/puntate/il-golpe-borghese/8/default.aspx Il golpe Borghese. Storia di un'inchiesta] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160821085054/http://www.lastoriasiamonoi.rai.it/puntate/il-golpe-borghese/8/default.aspx |date=21 August 2016 }}, La storia siamo noi, Rai Educational (accessed 24 February 2011)</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-08-21 |title=Il golpe Borghese - Storia di un'inchiesta - La Storia siamo noi |url=http://www.lastoriasiamonoi.rai.it/puntate/il-golpe-borghese/8/default.aspx |access-date=2024-12-26 |archive-date=2016-08-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160821085054/http://www.lastoriasiamonoi.rai.it/puntate/il-golpe-borghese/8/default.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2005-12-05 |title=E la Cia disse: sì al golpe Borghese ma soltanto con Andreotti premier - la Repubblica.it |url=https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2005/12/05/la-cia-disse-si-al-golpe.html |access-date=2024-12-26 |website=Archivio - la Repubblica.it |language=it}}</ref> Nevertheless, the attempt is well known in Italy and film director [[Mario Monicelli]] made a biting satire of it called ''[[Vogliamo i colonnelli]]'' (1972) (''We want the Colonels'', as the [[Regime of the Colonels|Fascist Greek colonels]] were pulling the strings behind the scenes). The main character (played by [[Ugo Tognazzi]]) is a bombastic neo-fascist politician called Tritoni ([[Triton (mythology)|Triton]]), a clear allusion to Borghese, who was sometimes called the ''frog prince'' in Italy, after his time in the Frogmen assault Unit ''Dècima MAS''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Day |first=The Editor: Italy On This |title=The Borghese Coup |url=https://www.italyonthisday.com/2022/12/the-borghese-coup.html |access-date=2024-11-15}}</ref> ===Final years and death=== Latterly regarded as a political outcast and shunned by his ancestrally [[Nobility|blue blood]] social connections for his "heretical" political extremism and disregard for the external norms of modern aristocratic etiquette and behaviour, Borghese died under mysterious circumstances in [[Cádiz]], Spain, on 26 August 1974, aged 68.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Greene|first1=Jack|title=The Black Prince and the Sea Devils: the story of Valerio Borghese and the elite commandos of the Decima MAS|date=2004|publisher=Da Capo Press|location=Cambridge, Mass.|isbn=978-0306813115|pages=234–235|edition=1.}}</ref> The death certificate records the cause of death as "[[acute pancreatitis|acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis]]"; however, since Borghese was visited by a physician who found him in good shape just a few days before, it has been suggested that the circumstances of his death, characterized by a sudden onset of abdominal pain immediately after supper, could be compatible with [[arsenic poisoning]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Incerti|first1=Corrado|title=Borghese: indigestione o veleno?|url=http://www.misteriditalia.it/golpeborghese/Borgheseindigestioneoveleno%28LEuropeo%29.pdf|access-date=8 December 2014}}</ref> He is buried in the Borghese family chapel in the [[Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore]], Rome.
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