Decreto cotro la la Setta dei Liberi Muratori 1824
Decreto cotro la la Setta dei Liberi Muratori 1824
FRANCIS IV
Duke of Modena, Reggio, Mirandola, Archduke of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia
Digital Index Publisher, Modena 2012
Introduction by Giorgio Montecchi, President of the Institute of History of the Risorgimento of Modena, Full Professor of Bibliography at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of the State University of Milan.
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On March 1, 1824, the Decree of the Duke of Modena against the Freemasons was published, dictated by the most complete ignorance of facts and men, the fruit of error, the worthy and deplorable result of prejudice, superstition and Italian priestly fanaticism (...).
His Royal Highness no doubt believed that he needed some sort of justification, for he followed it with an extract from the statutes of certain secret societies, the principal object of his fears and aversion, and which he wished at all costs to connect with Freemasonry! It was difficult for a sovereign to be more completely mistaken.
But the Central and Special Commission of Milan had just condemned to death several individuals of noble rank and among others the Marquis Arconati Visconti, because he belonged to secret societies and the Duke of Modena was dragged into the whirlwind of great persecutions as well as great errors!
The proof is the conclusion of its provision with the historical and legal extract of the Milan procedures.
from Annales Chronologiques litteéraires et historiques de la Maconnerie des Pay-Bas, volume V - Années 1824, Ordre de Bruxelles, L. Jorez Fils Editeeur, 1826
