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Sketch for the History of the Dionysian Artificers, by Brazilian freemason, journalist and diplomat Hippolyto Joseph da Costa (or, Hipólito José da Costa) was originally published in English in 1820. The work is an attempt to prove that modern Freemasonry derived from ancient Greek philosophical and religious ideas centred around a group identified as the Dionysian Artificers who were a secret society whose principle purpose was the construction of buildings.