Giustiniano Lebano

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

Origins Lebano derives from De lo Olevano or de lo Levano, an ancient noble Spanish family of the princes De los Garavitos. In 1146, they became consuls, and in 1222, they obtained the position, first in Milan and then in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, in Salerno. and Maria Acampora, he studied at the San Carlo alle Mortelle high school in Naples, graduating with a classical diploma in 1847. 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.

Along with other hermetists such as Giuseppe Ricciardi and Domenico Angherà, he revived the Hermetic tradition of Alexandrian Egyptian origin, giving rise to the Egyptian Grand Orient. As an esotericist, he was the mentor under Giuliano Kremmerz and studied under Eliphas Levi and was a member of the Theosophical Society.

Risorgimento Being anti-Bourbon In Paris, he had the opportunity to meet the brothers Bédarride, Nicola Giuseppe Spedalieri, Charles Nodier, and Carlo Pisacane.

Marriage with Virginia and private life

Lebano married Virginia Bocchini on September 7, 1862, after meeting her in 1859. Virginia was the granddaughter of Domenico Bocchini, who had raised her after she became orphaned. In 1870, the couple moved to Villa Lebano, although Virginia was anxious due to the raids by the brigand Pilone. It was at this villa that two of their four children, a son and a daughter, died, leading Virginia to lose faith in conventional medicine. She began to seek out mediums and occultists, including Eusapia Palladino and Giuliano Kremmerz, and became involved in magic, Kabbalah, and spiritualism. However, in 1883, their fifteen-year-old son, Filippo, fell seriously ill. Desperate to save his life, Virginia consulted doctors, healers, monks, priests, exorcists, astrologers, and gurus. Admitted to the hospital in Torre Annunziata, all forms of infectious disease were ruled out, but the type of enteritis he was suffering from could not be identified. 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. At the end of the Second World War, in 1948 Ariano brought all the documents back to Naples and, thanks to a previous agreement, took custody of a thousand manuscripts and 2,350 volumes from the library of Villa Lebano, handing them over to his wife, Rosaria Valerio di Caserta, an Egyptian theosophist and freemason, who kept them in her home in Caserta, Villa Valerio Landi, until 1975, the year of her death. 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.