The initiative to write this volume comes from the need to fill a bibliographic gap: no book in Masonic literature upon the history of Italian Freemasonry has b

This “stupendous ethnography of female Freemasonry in Italy” reveals the fascinating paradox of elitism and exclusion experienced by “female brothers” (

Title varies slightly; v. 2 ... By Robert Freke Gould ... assisted by W.J. Hughan ... and others.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.