Francesco Benigno, La mala setta. Alle origini di mafia e camorra 1859-1878. Torino : Einaudi, 2015, 403 p., ISBN 978-88-06-22441-7.

Abstract

This book is an important contribution to the debates on the origins of organized crime in Italy and, because of the historical role of Italy in the emergence of the phenomenon, therefore also highly relevant for an understanding of organized crime in general. It explicitly proposes itself as revisionist, since it intends to contest the presently dominant narrative that argues for an organizational continuity of Mafia and Camorra since their ill-understood origins generally dated in the mid-n...