External links: Grand Orient of Italy
Sunday, September 28, 2014
Grand Masters
In the park of Villa Fabbricotti we can find the busts of two preeminent Livornese Freemasons: Adriano Lemmi (Livorno, 1822–Florence, 1906) and Alessandro Tedeschi (Livorno, 1867–Saint-Loubès, 1940).
Adriano Lemmi, as Grand Master from 1885 until 1895, was able to reunite all the Masonic observances of the peninsula under the Grande Oriente d'Italia (Grand Orient of Italy).
With the advent of the Fascist Era, the Freemasonry was outlawed in Italy and the Grand Orient of Italy was reorganized in France where, in 1931, Alessandro Tedeschi became Grand Master in exile. During the war he was actively sought after by the Gestapo as a Jew, a Mason, and an anti-Fascist. He died in 1940, just before they were able to arrest him.
External links: Grand Orient of Italy
External links: Grand Orient of Italy
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7 comments:
Interesting looking busts of the two.
Very nicely done.
With those three strikes against him, I suppose Tedeschi was lucky to die before the enemy caught him. He looks like a good man.
Interesting. Thanks VP.
I like these sculptures.
Masonry rules in our parliament. Hope I will never see a bust of any of the current politicians.
I'm not sure what my feelings are about Freemasons. But Alessandro seem to have been a great man.
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