Abstract

NOVARINO, Marco. Masonic Imperialism? The Impact of the ‘Dalmatian Question’on Italian Freemasonry (1914-1919). REHMLAC [online]. 2018, vol.10, n.1, pp.182-212. ISSN 1659-4223.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/rehmlac.v10i1.32767.

After the First World War, Italian freemasonry had to reconcile masonic universalism with patriotic demands. The nationalistic turning point, marked by the Grand Master Ernesto Nathan (1917-1918), widened the gap of the vexata quaestio “cosmopolitanism/nationalism” by introducing imperialistic tendencies. Thus, distancing itself from the thinking of Mazzini and the values of the Risorgimento which had been professed and defended until the first decade of the 20th century. The support for the Dalmatian annexation policies became a key issue in order to understand the nationalistic evolution of the Grand Orient of Italy during the war and its aftermath.

Keywords : Global Order; International Relations and Identities; Historiography; Social Networks; Eurocentrism.

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