«The 99 Masonic streets of Naples» is the title of the latest work in chronological order that the journalist-writer Antonio Emanuele Piedimonte dedicates to the historical investigation of the esoteric world and the many Neapolitan “mysteries”. It will be presented in Naples on Monday 13 May (5pm) at Banca Fideuram Palazzo Nunziante, via Morelli 7. In addition to the author, participants include: Oscar Cardarelli, Fideuram manager; Gianandrea Maria Perrella, lawyer; Massimo Marra, historian of Hermeticism and Western alchemy; Angelo Cerulo, journalist. Moderator: Professor Luca de Luca Picione, journalist-essayist and university professor at Federico II.
The volume which traces the biographies of characters who had a very close relationship with Partenope, is a history of southern Freemasonry rewritten through the town’s toponymy. Few people know that for centuries Naples was one of the capitals of European Freemasonry and that over a hundred streets, alleys and squares in the city bear the name of protagonists of history who belonged to Freemasonry, starting with the two princes par excellence: Sansevero and Toto. This short prosopographical-toponymic journey aims to be a way to retrace the long and complex path of Freemasonry in Southern Italy by rereading almost forgotten biographies and almost forgotten historical events. The history of the South and that of the largest initiatory Communion in the world through the profiles of men (and women) who made Naples «a capital also from a cultural point of view, which was looked at with admiration from Paris as well as from London, from Vienna like from Berlin…”.
