Giustiniano Lebano

Giustiniano Lebano, alias Sairitis Hus,[1] (14 May 1832[2] – 1910), also known as the "wizard of Torre Annunziata",[3][1][4] was an Italian lawyer, patriot, esoterist, alchemist, Freemason, Martinist, Hermeticist,[5] philanthropist,[6][7] and historian.

[8] Son of lawyer Filippo (1802-1852), a member of the Cilento Carbonari,[9] and Maria Acampora, he studied at the San Carlo alle Mortelle high school in Naples, graduating with a classical diploma in 1847.

[10] As a student of Basilio Puoti and Vito Fornari, he studied Literature and Italian, and became a deep scholar of dead languages such as Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, taught to him respectively by Nicola Lucignano, Giuseppe Maria Parascandolo, and Andrea Ferrigni.

Giustiniano's family's close relationship with Bocchini led to his initiation into the Traditional Egyptian Rite at the Folgore Lodge in 1853, where he later served as Grand Master from 1893 to 1910.

[13] Being anti-Bourbon[13] and threatened with death by the brigand Antonio Cozzolino alias Pilone, he was forced into exile first in Turin and then in Paris,[13] where he met Alexandre Dumas with whom, in 1860, he brought weapons and ammunition to the Thousand stationed in Calatafimi.

In 1884, their surviving daughter, Silvia, was sent to Sorrento for safety, while Virginia's health began to improve by 1885, so much so that she received a visit from Helena Blavatsky and Franz Hartmann, who came to be initiated into the Arcana Arcanorum by Giustiniano Lebano.

[18] With the advent of fascism, in 1925 Pasquale del Pezzo, duke, senator, university rector and former mayor of Naples, made all the works of the Neapolitan Masonic lodges disappear by hiding them in Villa Lebano, thanks to the help of a Navy Marshal, a certain Antonio Ariano.

Subsequently, a certain Nicola Ariano from Torre Annunziata, nephew of Antonio, began searching for the Lebano archive in both villas, but did not find any documents.