Freemasonry -- Italy

Correspondence relating to recognition of Masonic bodies in post-war Italy, much of it with Publio Cortini of Rome.

Correspondence to and from Tito Signorelli, Sovereign Grand Commander, Supreme Council for Italy. Also includes correspondence relating to the state of Freemasonry in Italy after World War Two.

Letter in Italian dated August 25, 1893 from Ad. Lemmi, Sovereign Grand Commander, Italian Supreme Council of 33° to Henry Palmer, Sovereign Grand Commander Northern Masonic Jurisdiction.

A program for an event to celebrate the anniversary of the unification of Italy and Rome as the capital of United Italy, held at Cavalieri Hilton in Rome. The program includes signatures on inside cover, addressed to George Newbury from the Grand Orient of Italy.

Correspondence and reports relating to the state of Freemasonry in Italy.

The following topics are mentioned: John H. Cowles, Germany, anti-semitism, Italy, Romania, Central America, Mexico, Egypt

Typescript entitled "The Standards of the Rite: The Mission of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite in Human Society" by John Pica, Sovereign Grand Commander of Italy, 33°

This collection is the Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, file on the Supreme Council of Italy and its history through splits and irregularity. The file was compiled, summarized and given to the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library by Sidney R. Baxter.