Over time, in the Italian context, a series of studies have focused on the possible connections, affinities, and influences between Eliade's thought and the traditionalist paradigm represented by authors such as René Guénon, Julius Evola, and Ananda K. Coomaraswamy. Among the most important, we can mention the studies signed by Giovanni Casadio, Crescenzo Fiore, Enrico Montanari, Paola Pisi, Natale Spineto, and others. Paola Pisi conducted a comparative study on the conceptions of folklore and metaphysics in Eliade and traditionalist authors, concluding that although there was initially a common conceptual and methodological framework, Eliade later distanced himself from the traditionalist conception, moving to another level of theorizing. In his work dedicated to the historian of religions, Natale Spineto considers 1937 a turning point in Eliade's intellectual development, due to the influence of the studies of Ananda Coomaraswamy and Paul Mus, where he finds the pivotal concepts that will appear with increased prominence in his mature works. Spineto admits (as does Paola Pisi) that certain key concepts in Eliade's works were taken from traditionalist authors, primarily René Guénon and Ananda Coomaraswamy (axis mundi, the concept of "folklore," that of "archetype," that of the spiritual East). However, he rightly observes that although Eliade demonstrated the universality of metaphysical traditions and the ecumenical nature of symbols, he did not speak of a "Primal Tradition," but of a "traditional culture," by which he understood a culture entirely dominated by norms whose religious or cosmological (metaphysical) validity is not questioned by any of the community members. In my presentation, I intend to synthesize the studies published in the Italian academic environment on this topic and show the extent to which they have contributed to our understanding of a shadowy area in the history of religions.