This book aims to offer the reader a short but intense journey into Italian Freemasonry and, specifically, in its most characteristic rite: the Italian Simbolic Rite. This is a purely national ritual form of Italian Freemasonry, traced back to its sources. It was born in 1859, by the Lodge Ausonia of Turin, which gave birth to Grande Oriente d'Italia, for the main purpose of determining the birth of a regular and sovereign national Masonic Order.