In 1914, at the fourteenth national congress of the Italian Socialist Party, held in Ancona, Mussolini managed to impose his motion for the incompatibility between party membership and Freemasonry, winning over that of the freemasonMember of the Michelangelo lodge in Florence and co-director of the magazine Acacia, publisher by the Grand Orient of Italy, as well as author of a pamphlet entitled Il Valore morale della Massoneria secondo Fichte (The Moral Value of Freemasonry according to Fichte) Alfredo Poggi who was instead in favor.
