Writings of Arturo Reghini

Writings of Arturo Reghini (1878-1946) are quite unknown outside Italy, but things are beginning to change. I heard of Reghini long ago, but it was only until Fabio Venzi’s book Studies on Traditional Freemasonry (2013) that I could read something of him. Then in 2016 there finally was an extensive biography with one translated text. Also, even though the two had their disagreements, Julius Evola (1898-1974) did not leave out the texts of “Pietro Negri” from the UR/KRUR texts that are translated to English as the three volumes of Introduction to Magic (2001, 2019, 2021).
A while ago I ran into the website La Melagrana (‘the pomegranate’) which contains 25 texts of Reghini in Italian. Most of them are descent PDFs (a few are scanned books) which I could just open in Microsoft Word en translate to Dutch. Sure, the translations are not great, but the texts are understandable. It took me a while to work through them all as the total covers quite a few pages. Unfortunately La Melagrana does not mention the sources or years of publication of the texts. Only when the author is listed as “Pietro Negri” I know that it is a (KR)UR text, but of the rest I have no idea.
I was quite surprised to learn that Reghini wrote more about Freemasonry than I expected. Several of the titles are entirely or partly about Masonic subjects. The entire range of subjects of the collection is fairly wide and the length of the texts are as well. They go from articles of a few pages that were initiatally published in articles (also UR/KRUR), to complete books.
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