Abstract
This article provides a detailed report on the first two editions of the festival of books about the Mafia held in Lamezia Terme (Calabria, Italy) in June 2011 and June 2012. The article reviews the 101 books presented in the two festivals. The analysis of the books presented at the public event gives us the opportunity to analyse the ways in which the Mafia's public image has been constructed in recent times. The books presented at the first two Festival editions have been divided by the authors into four main categories: books written by journalists, by magistrates, by Mafia researchers and books by activists from the anti-mafia movement. The debate on Mafia and anti-mafia seems to have a number of different ‘voices’, some of which (like those of magistrates and journalists) prevail over others, and this has led to a public debate about organised crime at a series of levels.
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