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Died. Vittorio Domizio Torrigiani, 70, onetime Grand Master of Italian Freemasonry; of a lingering illness; in Tuscany, Italy. When Premier Mussolini abolished Freemasonry in 1925, Torrigiani was convicted of political interference, sentenced in 1927 to five years' imprisonment on the Lipari Islands. Though he was regarded as Mussolini's greatest enemy, II Duce permitted his return two years later, partly because of Torrigiani's infirmities...