This book offers the reader a short but intense journey into Italian Freemasonry and specifically, the Italian Symbolic Rite. We trace this purely Italian expression of Freemasonry back to its sources. It was born in 1859, out of the Ausonia Lodge of Turin, which also gave birth to the Grand Orient of Italy for the purpose of ensuring the birth of a regular and sovereign Masonic Order in Italy, thereby removing any invasive external influences and pressure.