Taking over from my predecessor Grand Master Luigi Pruneti, in the programme for my three year term 2013 - 2015 I have decided to concentrate on the importance of culture as evidence of a way of life and thought where the values of Freedom, Equality and Fraternity are not just empty words. I hereby restate that Freemasonry is culture or nothing at all! Honoring my promises I am glad to commit the Grand Lodge of Italy with its ten thousand members, eighthundred lodges spread all over Italy welcoming women, too and its associated branches in U.S.A., England, Canada, Lebanon, Germany, Poland, Romania and the ex Jugoslavia to the Expo 2015 "challange".