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by John Dickie


  Australia, ’ndrangheta in, 641, 648

  Avanti! (newspaper), 169

  Avellone, Leonardo, 162–163

  Badalamenti, Gaetano (Tano), 391, 413, 415, 440, 449, 462, 463, 464, 537

  Badolato, Francesca, 327

  Bagarella, Leoluca, 464, 478, 602–603, 605

  Ballinari, Luigi, 419

  Banda della Magliana, 489–491, 553

  Banditry, 288, 289–290, 300. See also Musolino, Giuseppe (King of Aspromonte)

  Banking crisis of 1890s, 157–158, 160–161

  Bank of Naples, 397

  Bank of Sicily, 159, 160, 161, 163, 170, 177

  Barbaro, Domenico, 520, 521, 522

  Bardellino, Antonio, 543–545, 548–549, 586, 634, 638

  Bardonecchia, 368–370

  Barone, Michele, 239

  Barra, Pasquale (the Student; the Animal), 454, 517–518, 522

  Barra clan, 617–618

  Basile, Emanuele, 503–504

  Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano, 590

  The Beati Paoli (Linares), 102–104

  Bellocco, Umberto, 492

  Bentham, Jeremy, 535

  Berlusconi, Silvio, 421–422, 428, 593, 594–595, 596, 631

  Big John (ship), 638

  Binaggio, Charles, 321

  Bi-polarism, 596

  41-bis (Clause 41a), 591, 592

  Biundi, Giuseppe, 73

  Black economy, 621

  Black Hand, 199

  Black market, 278–281, 317

  Blood oaths, xxxv, 236, 252, 263, 311

  Blood of a Camorrista (play), 101

  Bologna, Notarbartolo murder trial, 176–177

  Bonanno, Joe (Bananas), 382

  Bonanno Family, 435–436, 447–448

  Bontate, Francesco Paolo, 387

  Bontate, Giovanni, 465

  Bontate, Stefano (Prince of Villagrazia), 391, 413, 415, 449, 462, 463, 464, 469, 490, 528, 556, 583

  Bontate group, 391

  Bontatel, Stefano, 465–466

  Bordonaro, Lucio Tasca, 273

  Borghese, Junio Valerio, 404–405, 406

  Borgnine, Ernest, 318

  Borsellino, Paolo, 65, 66, 504, 505, 528, 531, 532, 534, 537, 560–564, 571, 643

  eulogy for Falcone, 577–578

  maxi-trial and, 551, 552, 554, 559

  murder of, 578–579, 581, 582, 589, 590, 591, 592

  Borsellino, Salvatore, 591

  Bossi, Umberto, 596

  The Boss of Camorra (play), 101

  Bourbons

  in Naples, 5–6, 16, 19–20, 21–23, 25, 29, 32, 42

  in Sicily, 49–50, 55–56

  Bova, 129, 130, 132

  Bowles, Paul, 376

  BR. See Red Brigades

  Bresci, Gaetano, 158

  Il brigante Musolino (film), 309

  Brotherhood of Favara, 89

  Brusca, Giovanni (the Pig), 603–604, 612

  Buffalo herdsmen, 230–231

  Bulawayo Chronicle (newspaper), 213

  Buscetta, Tommaso, 65, 382, 390, 392, 525–526, 529, 530–531, 535–536, 552–553, 556–557, 559, 560, 583

  Buscetta theorem, 529–530, 536, 551, 566, 570, 571

  Bush, George W., 645

  Business, mafias and, 347, 360, 424, 547–549

  concrete, 361–372

  waste-management, 626, 627–632

  See also Construction industry

  Caccia, Bruno, 370

  Cacciatori, 659

  Cacciola, Maria Concetta, 649–650

  Calabria, 117–119

  Africo, 120, 127–141, 144, 145–146, 240

  AMGOT in, 274–276

  anti-mafia campaigns in, 231–234, 237–241, 266–269

  co-management in, 124

  earthquake and reconstruction of, 200

  economic crisis in, 138–139

  fragmentation of, 140

  mafia of (see ’Ndrangheta [Calabrian mafia]; Piccioterria [Lads with Attitude])

  Marzano Operation, 335, 336–345

  New Organised Camorra (see Nuova Camorra Organizzata [NCO])

  Plain of Gioia Tauro, 121–126

  post-war neglect of, 308–309

  Reggio Calabria (city), 118, 119, 120, 121, 200, 239, 354, 395, 401, 405–407, 424

  Reggio Calabria (province), xxxiii, xliii, 119, 153, 334–335, 401–402, 427, 430, 549–550

  stereotypes of, 113–114, 137–138, 151–152

  Calderone, Antonino, 409, 411, 414, 415, 563

  Calderone, Pippo, 392, 414, 465

  Calì cartel, 638

  Callea, Bruno, 133, 140

  Callea, Domenico, 128–131, 132, 135, 137

  Callea, Giuseppe, 140

  Calò, Pippo, 553–554, 558, 566

  Calvi, Roberto, 449

  Cambridge History of China, 435

  Il Cammorista (film), 479–480

  The Camorra (Monnier), 27

  Camorra (Neapolitan/Campanian mafia), xl, xlv, 6, 13, 125

  Allied Liberation and, 281

  anti-mafia campaigns against, 584–586

  Christian Democrats and, 585

  code book, 9

  collapse of original, 310–312

  co-management and, 16–17

  contemporary, 617–626

  Cosa Nostra and, 388–392, 477–478

  courts, 10–11

  crackdown on, 35–46

  Cuocolo trial, 187–188, 189–196, 214–220

  decision-making power and role of, 39

  dramas about, 310–311

  dress code, 12–13

  drug trafficking and, 620, 623

  Duisberg massacre, xxxiii, xxxiv–xxxv, 136, 644–645

  emigrating to America, 197–200

  enforced residence, 45–46

  exploitation of political weakness, 548–549

  extortion and, 17–18

  fascism’s anti-mafia campaign and, 231–234

  folklore about, 101–102

  foundation myth of, xxv–xxvi

  fragmentation of, 545–546

  Garibaldean rule and, 32–34

  Gomorrah, 633–636, 644

  grey zone, 657–659

  hackney-cab-drivers’ strike and, 111–112

  ‘high,’ 184–188

  hunt for fugitive, 615

  initiation rituals, 100, 215, 623

  kidnappings and, 416

  kinship and, 624

  legacy of Cuocolo trial for, 214–220

  link between urban and rural, 354

  loan sharking and, 195–196, 203

  ‘low,’ 185

  in Mazzoni, 229–233

  meaning of term, xxx

  membership fee, 128, 236

  modernisation of Naples and, 217–218

  myth of good camorrista, 228

  NCO (see Nuova Camorra Organizzata [NCO])

  ’ndrangheta and, 400

  NF (see Nuova Famiglia [NF])

  organisation of, xl–xli, 38–39, 623–624

  origin of, 3–6, 7–14, 39–40

  penitents, 585

  picciotteria and, 125–126

  plays about, 99–101

  police and, 25–31

  political activity by, 19, 187

  popular image of, 99–102

  post-earthquake reconstruction and, 200, 481–482, 483–484, 486–487

  post–World War I, 235–238

  prisons and, 3–6, 7–14, 112–114

  public attention to, 643–644

  publicity and, 474, 476

  in Puglia, 493

  re-emergence of, 312–313

  in straw-yellow gloves, 194–195

  tattoos, 95–97, 98, 113

  transsexual (femminielli), 625

  wars, 462, 471–478

  waste-management industry and, 626, 627–632

  women and, 76–77, 624–625

  See also Mafia organisations

  Campania

  AMGOT in, 276–281

  camorra of
(see Camorra [Neapolitan/Campanian mafia]; Nuova Camorra Organizzata [NCO]; Nuova Famiglia [NF])

  conflict with Nuova Famiglia, 542–545

  Cosa Nostra in, 387, 388–389, 545

  earthquake, 480, 481–482

  garbage crisis, 627–629

  Genovese in, 255–256

  geography of the underworld in, 617–626

  Gomorrah, 633–636, 644

  post-earthquake reconstruction in, 481–482, 483–484, 486–487

  Terra di Lavoro, 625–626, 631–632

  Canada

  Cosa Nostra in, 445–447

  ’ndrangheta in, 550, 641

  Cantone, Raffaele, 636

  Capaci massacre, 575–576

  Capezzuti, Erminio, 209, 214, 217

  Capizzi, Benedetto, 612, 613

  Capocrimine, xliii

  Capo di tutti i capi, xlii, xliii

  Capomandamento, xlii

  Capone, Al, 379

  Caponnetto, Antonino, 528, 552, 563

  Cappuccio, Ciccio (Little Lord Frankie), 108–110, 125, 281, 311, 455

  Capua, Antonio, 340

  Caputo, Antonio, 278

  Caputo, Giuseppe, 278

  Capuzza, Paolo, 575

  Carabinieri

  Cacciatori, 659

  Cuocolo case and, 190–196, 209–211, 213–214

  fight against banditry, 300

  fight against Red Brigades, 506

  torture allegations against, 252–253

  Car bombs, 383–384

  Carnevale, Corrado, 570–571

  Caruana, Alfonso, 638

  Caruana, Leonardo, 468

  Caruanas, 446–449

  Casal di Principe, 634

  Casale, Alberto, 112, 183, 185

  Casalesi, 634, 635

  Cascio-Ferro, Vito, 198

  Casella, Angela, 587

  Casella, Cesare, 587

  Caselli, Gian Carlo, 582, 594, 602

  Casillo, Enzo (Blacky), 484, 487–488

  Cassarà, Ninni, 532–533

  Cassina, Luciano, 412

  Castagna,

  Domenicantonio, 327, 329, 332

  Castagna, Serafino (Monster of Presinaci), 327–334, 345

  Castellammarese War, 463

  Castello del Carmine, 3–5, 13

  Castel Molo, 70–72

  Castromediano,

  Sigismondo, 3–6, 7–14, 25, 42, 283

  Catalano, Agostino, 578

  Catalano, Domenico, 341–343

  Catalano, Giovanni, 215–216

  Catania, 465

  Catholic Church, 537–539, 584, 590

  Cattle rustling, 131

  Cava clan, 625

  Cavataio, Michele, 390–391

  Celadon, Carlo, 419, 420–421

  Cervantes, Miguel de, 40

  Cervello, Gaspare, 575

  Charcoal Burners (Carbonari), 41–42, 49, 50

  Chiaiano, 630

  Chief cudgel (capobastone), xxxviii, xliv, 136, 268, 396, 427, 646, 647

  Chilà, Giuseppe, xxxvi

  China, opium trade, 434–435

  Chinnici, Rocco, 528, 537

  Cholera, 106

  Christian Democrats (DC), 288

  anti-mafia campaign (Marzano Operation), 335, 336–345

  camorra and, 585

  Cirillo affair and, 483, 486

  Cosa Nostra and, 301–303, 383, 384, 512–513, 538, 568, 655

  demise of, 580–581

  end of Cold War and, 567, 568

  Fund for the South and, 363

  Naples and, 316–317

  ’ndrangheta and, 341–343

  party-ocracy, 546–547

  ‘Christmas train bomb,’ 553–554

  Church of San Giorgio, 590

  Ciaculli massacre, 384, 385

  Ciancimino, Vito, 363, 365, 411, 655

  Ciano, Galeazzo, 256

  Ciaramitaro, Antonino, 467

  Cigarettes. See Tobacco smuggling

  Cirella, 247–254

  Cirillo, Ciro, 482–487

  The City Stands Trial (film), 312

  Civil courts, 658–659

  Clause 41a, 591, 592

  Cocaine trafficking, ’ndrangheta and, xxxiii, 637–642

  Coded jargon, 126

  Colajanni, Napoleone, 177–178

  Cold War, 538, 567–568, 595, 659

  Colombo package, 407–408, 429

  Communist Party/communists, 288, 289, 301, 383, 503, 538, 546, 595

  criticism of Marzano Operation, 344–345

  end of Cold War and, 567–568

  La Torre and, 507–508, 509, 510, 511

  mafias vs., 299–300

  Compagna, Francesco, 354

  Comparatico, 75

  Conca d’Oro, 52, 261, 364

  Concrete business, mafias and, 361–372

  Confesercenti, 614

  Confindustria, 614, 615

  Consigliere, xli

  Conso, Giovanni, 592

  Construction industry, mafias and, 360, 372

  camorra and, 547–549

  concrete business, 361–372

  ’ndrangheta and, 368–370

  Contorno, Totuccio, 467, 469, 529, 552

  Contrada, Bruno, 583

  Coppola, Agostino, 412–413

  Coppola, Francis Ford, 294, 381

  Coppola, Frank (Three Fingers), 367, 412, 518

  Corbo, Angelo, 575

  Corino, Mario, 368–369

  Corleo, Luigi, 414–415

  Corleone, 411, 462, 510

  Corleone Family, 391

  Corleonesi, 411–415, 490, 553

  Bardellino and, 543–544

  Riina and (see Riina, Totò [Shorty])

  Second Mafia War and, 463–469

  Correntisti, 314–316, 319, 354

  Corriere della Sera (newspaper), 158, 179, 339, 428, 562

  Corriere di Napoli (newspaper), 147

  Corsican heroin trade, 437

  Corso dei Mille Family, 603

  Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia (Dickie), xxix

  Cosa Nostra (Sicilian mafia), xxix–xxx

  AMGOT and, 271–274

  anti-mafia campaigns against, 499–506, 512–516, 527–534, 536, 601–616, 652–654

  camorra and, 388–392, 477–478

  in Campania, 387, 388–389, 545

  Catholic Church and, 584

  Christian Democrats and, 301–303, 383, 384, 512–513, 538, 568, 655

  coded dialogue, 64

  control over criminals, 654

  drug trafficking and, 638–639

  emigration to America, 197–199

  eminent corpses, 501–505

  extortion and, 613–615, 653

  factions within, 462–465

  First Mafia War, 383–385

  forced resettlement and, 386–387

  governing bodies, 382–383

  grey zone, 655–657

  heroin trafficking and, 435–438, 440–444

  illusion of nonexistence/benignity of, 57–62

  initiation ritual, xxxix–xl, 63–64, 65, 68

  investigations of, 65–66, 69–72, 74–76, 78–90, 163, 164–168

  Italian finance and, 496, 552

  kidnapping and, 409–415, 416

  longevity of, 652–657

  Magliana Band and, 490

  maxi-trial, 551–559, 566

  media portrayals of, 380–381

  ’ndrangheta and, 400, 426–427

  Notarbartolo affair, 159–163, 169–173, 176–177, 178, 180–181

  Nuova Camorra Organizzata and, 470, 471–472

  as official name, 380

  organisation of, xli–xlii, 262–263

  origin of, 51–56

  outposts, 494

  Palermo Commission, 382, 391, 398, 402, 413–414, 551, 611, 612, 652

  penitents, 525–526, 563, 583–584, 591–592, 605, 608

  politics/politicians and, 61–62, 218, 592–593, 655–656

  post-war transition i
n, 288–290

  prostitution and, 77

  in Puglia, 493

  pursuit of fugitives, 601–607, 608–613, 615–616

  The Region, 413–414

  resumption following Ciaculli bomb hiatus, 390–391

  revival after World War II, 257

  ‘Rights and Duties,’ 610–611

  rulebook, 80

  Sangiorgi trial, 173–176

  Second Mafia War, 462

  as single organisation, 65–67

  submersion strategy, 604–605, 606, 608

  tobacco smuggling and, 388, 389–390, 391–392

  triumvirate, 391, 402, 413

  use of marriage in, 75–76, 166

  vendetta, 72–76, 77–79, 81, 88

  war on the state, 571, 581, 588, 589–594, 601, 604, 609

  women and, 76, 77, 88

  See also Mafia organisations

  Cosentino, Nicola, 631

  Cosenza, Vincenzo, 175, 180

  Cosina, Walter Eddie, 578

  Costa, Gaetano, 504

  Costanza, Maurizio, 590

  Costello, Frank (Francesco Castiglia), 321, 322

  Craxi, Bettino, 593

  Cricelli, Francesco, 334

  The Crime (the Province), xliii–xliv, 308, 646–651

  Crispi, Francesco, 157, 162, 163

  Cuccaro, Angelo, 617

  Cuffaro, Giuseppe (Pino), 445–446, 447

  Cuffaro, Salvatore, 655–656

  Cuntrera, Gaspare, 582

  Cuntrera, Liborio, 447

  Cuntrera, Paolo, 582

  Cuntrera, Pasquale, 447, 582

  Cuntrera-Caruana clan, 447–448, 468, 582, 638

  Cuntreras clan, 446–449

  Cuocolo, Gennaro, 189–196, 204, 219–220

  Cuocolo case, 187–188, 189–196, 199, 202–220, 312

  Cuomo, Maria Grazia, 585

  Cusimano, Giovanni (Darky), 70–72, 73–74, 75, 77, 78–79, 81, 165

  Cutinelli, Maria, 189, 191, 193, 194, 196

  Cutolo, Raffaele (the Professor), 450–458, 534, 619

  Alfieri and, 544

  Barra and, 518

  Cirillo affair and, 483–484, 485–486, 487–488

  Cosa Nostra and, 470–472

  film about, 479–480

  Galasso and, 584

  Magliana Band and, 490–491

  Nuovo Camorra Pugliese, 491–492

  Nuovo Famiglia and, 471, 472–474

  operating outside Campania, 494

  Pandico and, 521

  Tortora and, 524

  See also Nuova Camorra Organizzata (NCO)

  Cutolo, Roberto, 486

  Cutolo, Rosetta, 452, 624

  D’Agostino, Emanuele, 467

  D’Agostino, Nicola, 344–345

  Daily Express (newspaper), 180

  D’Alessandro, Giuseppe (Aversa Joe), 19–20, 23, 42

  Dalla Chiesa, Carlo Alberto, 507, 508–516, 527, 528, 537, 538, 556, 561, 563, 566, 582

  Dalla Chiesa, Nando, 516

  Dalla Chiesa, Romano, 508–509

  Dalla Chiesa, Romolo, 508

  DC. See Christian Democrats (DC)

  DDAs. See Direzioni Distrettuali Antimafia (DDAs)

  De André, Fabrizio, 409

  de Crescenzo, Marianna (la Sangiovannara), 22–23, 29–30, 32, 33, 35

 

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