Cipriano Facchinetti

As confirmed by the former President of the Grand Orient of Italy, he was one of the eight father constituents belonging to the main Italian Masonic organization.

In 1911 when the Malissori of Albania rose up proclaiming national independence, Ricciotti Garibaldi prepared an expedition of red shirts to assist the insurrectional movement.

The expedition could not take place, but Facchinetti also went to Trieste, and here, in the editorial office of the newspaper "Emancipazione", invited about fifty trusted companions to be in Podgorica, where then about twenty agreed.

Voluntarily rushed into the trenches, after eight months of war he was seriously injured in the eyes during an assault on the Ermada, near Monfalcone, deserving the silver medal for valor.

After the Armistice of Villa Giusti, he directed the newspaper L'Italia del Popolo in Milan in which he stirred the most important political and social issues of the time.

At the same time, he held a top role in the field of Freemasonry, having been appointed, in 1931, to the office of First Overseer in the Council of the Order of the Grand Orient of Italy in exile; he was affiliated to the "Eugenio Chiesa lodge" in Paris.