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The "Marcia Reale" (or "Marcia Reale Italiana") is the national anthem associated with the Italian monarchy, the representative body of political power already in place before Benito Mussolini came to power in October 1922, and which remained present throughout the Fascist period. When recorded and marketed as a record, the monarchist anthem most often accompanied "Giovinezza", the anthem of the National Fascist Party, which served as a second national anthem on the other side of the record. In this way, the same record both represents and gives voice to the two sides of Italian political power: the symbolic one, representing Italy's unification process (the "Risorgimento") and thus the very possibility of its existence as a nation; and the executive one, intended to represent Italy's national, even racial, development according to the palingenesis principle central to Fascism.