Camera dei Deputati/Senato della Repubblica,Ⅷ Legislatura,Commissione parlamentare d’inchiesta sul caso Sindona e sulle responsabilità politiche ad amministrative ad esso eventualmente connesse,Relazione conclusiva(relatore G.Azzaro),24 March 1982.Esp.pp.60-75 and 161-78.
Camera dei Deputati/Senato della Repubblica,Ⅷ Legislatura,Commissione parlamentare d’inchiesta sulla Loggia massonica P2. The vast and unwieldy documentation from the P2 Inquiry can be consulted here:http://www.fond taliarepubblicana.it/DocTrace/. I consulted the following in particular from the above:Relazione Anselmi:http://www.fontitaliarepubblicana.it/documents/121000-relazione-anselmi.html:‘[The P2 story] is uniquely rich in ambivalence and in facts with a double meaning’,p.145.‘The threat of the Communist Party,in agreement with clericalism,which is close to conquering power’,quoted pp.16-17. The‘double pyramid’,p.154. On Gelli’s past and the secret services,pp.60ff.‘The threat of the Communist Party,in agreement with clericalism’,quoted pp.16-17.‘We can formulate all kinds of abstract hypotheses,and no conclusion is obviously absurd’,p.76.‘Injustices(if any)suffered during your career’,quoted p.53;Piano di Rinascita democratica:09-leg-doc-ⅹⅹⅲ-n-2-4quater-3-tomo-7-bis-ocr.pdf;A.Corona,‘Libro bianco sulla Loggia Massonica P2’,in Allegati alla relazione,Serie Ⅱ:Documentazione raccolta dalla Commissione,vol.Ⅵ Loggia P2 e Massoneria,Tomo ⅩⅤ,Rome,1987;Audizione Rosseti:09-leg-doc-ⅹⅹⅲ-n-2-3ter-03-ocr.pdf;Auduzione Bozzo:http://www.fontitaliarepubblicana. it/documents/257-09-leg-doc-ⅹⅹⅲ-n-2-4quater-3-tomo-3-ocr.html;Audizione Tassan:Din 09-leg-doc-ⅹⅹⅲ-n-2-3ter-01-ocr.pdf p.294.
G.Colombo,Il vizio della memoria,Milan. First-hand account by one of the magistrates who discovered the P2 documentation.‘He tried to say something to us,but for a good couple of minutes he couldn’t articulate a single word’,p.58.
A.Comba,‘I volti della Massoneria nel secondo dopoguerra’,in Z.Ciuffoletti and S.Moravia(eds),La Massoneria. La storia,gli uomini,le idee,2nd edn,Milan,2004.
F.Cordova,‘Ricostituzione della massoneria italiana e riconoscimenti internazionali(1943-48)’,in Cazzaniga(ed.),Storia d’Italia. Annali,21. La Massoneria,Turin,2006.
Corriere della Sera,5 October 1980,‘Il fascino discreto del potere nascosto. Parla,per la prima volta,il signor P2’. Maurizio Costanzo’s famous interview of Licio Gelli.
Costituzione della Repubblica Italiana,articolo 18;https://www.mondadorieducation.it/media/contenuti/pagine/campus_economico_giuridico/02_discipl_giuridiche/2_biennio/10_costituzione_commentata/articoli/art18.html,consulted 19 June 2019.
M.della Campa,‘Da Garibaldi al dopo Gelli’,in M.della Campa and G.Galli,La Massoneria Italiana. Grande Oriente:più luce. Due opinioni a confronto,Milan,1998.
N.M.Di Luca,La Massoneria. Storia,miti e riti,Rome,2000.
R.Fabiani,I Massoni in Italia,Rome,1978. For details of Gelli’s biography,pp.8-12.
S.Flamigni,Trame atlantiche. Storia della Loggia massonica segreta P2,Milan,1996.
G.Galli,La venerabile trama. La vera storia di Licio Gelli e della P2,Turin,2007. The most convincing of the many scholars to devote their attention to P2:my conclusions follow his. The figures for money confiscated from Gelli are from loc. 1791 Kindle edition.‘For fifty years,in the shelter furnished by the struggle against Communism,people built dazzling political and economic careers’,loc.1228.
G.Gamberini,Attualità della Massoneria. Contenti gli operai,Ravenna,1978.‘A political force,a power-centre,an ideological school’,p.11.‘False Brothers’,p.189.On women’s‘different road’. On feminism,pp.138-9.‘Masonic teaching exclusively addresses the individual’,p.182. For the disingenuous claim that P2 was now just a normal Masonic Lodge,see p.252.
L.Magnolfi,Networks di potere e mercati illeciti. Il caso della loggia massonica P2,Soveria Mannelli,1996. This is an extremely interesting account of P2’s structure under Gelli,which I have drawn on here. For an analysis of P2 raccomandazioni,pp.61-6.‘Only by turning to P2,that is to Mr Gelli,could he satisfy the numerous requests for solidarity’,quoted p.25. Gelli browbeats members into joining the Lodge,p.54.‘[Gelli] made me realize that he was able to acquire knowledge of anything’,quoted p.54. On P2 and the tax-dodging oil importation scheme,pp.110-13. On Anna Bonomi,pp.92-4. On Rizzoli,pp.89ff.
F.Martelli,‘La Massoneria italiana nel periodo repubblicano(1948-2005)’,in Cazzaniga(ed.),Storia d’Italia. Annali,21. La Massoneria,Turin,2006.
A.A.Mola,Storia della Massoneria italiana. Dalle origini ai nostri giorni,Milan,2001. On Gelli thought to have circulated compromising documents on the Grand Master,pp.749-51.
A.A.Mola,Gelli e la P2. Fra cronaca e storia,Foggia,2008.
La Repubblica,‘Licio Gelli,al centro di innumerevoli casi giudiziari’,16 December
2015(for a summary of the legal actions against Gelli);‘La P2 non cospirò contro lo Stato’,28 March 1996;‘Gelli e la P2,capitolo chiuso’,22 November 1996.
D.Speroni,L’intrigo saudita. La strana storia della maxitangente Eni-Petromin,Rome,2015.
La Stampa,‘Gelli riacciuffato a due passi dalla Croisette’,11 September 1998(on his escape and recapture in disguise);‘Gelli e la P2. Assoluzione definitiva’,22 November 1996(on legal costs);‘“Diffamò Montanelli” Gelli è condannato’,14 November 1992.
G.Turone,Italia Occulta,Milan,2019. An important account of the P2 affair,which draws on documents such as first-hand accounts by Finanzieri of the search of Gelli’s properties,by one of the magistrates who led the investigation;loc. 4027 Kindle edition.
‘Pots of gold’,BBC News online,14 September 1998. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/170679.stm,consulted 8/8/2019. On the gold discovered in Gelli’s garden.
My calculations of Gelli’s riches in today’s values come from https://inflationhistory.com/,consulted 15 August 2019.