The Italians (46 page)
3
. Alessandro Rosina, Letizia Mencarini and Rosella Rettaroli, “Inizio dell’età adulta,”
2005.
4
. Martin Ljunge, “Was Banfield Right? Family Ties and Civic Virtues,” University of Copenhagen, 2011.
Chapter Fourteen: Taking Sides
1
. John Foot,
Calcio: A History of Italian Football
(London:
Fourth Estate, 2006).
2
. Gianni Brera, “Quel calcio lineare e sovrano,”
La Repubblica,
February 3, 1987.
3
. Paddy Agnew,
Forza Italia: A Journey in Search of Italy and Its Football
(London: Ebury Press, 2006).
Chapter Fifteen: Restrictive Practices
1
. Adrian Michaels, “Barbarian at the Gate,”
Financial Times,
March 15, 2008.
2
. Francesco Viviano, “Io e mio padre Provenzano. Così faccio i conti con la mafia,”
La Repubblica,
December 1, 2008.
Chapter Sixteen: Of Mafias and
Mafiosi
1
. Quoted in Pino Arlacchi,
Gli uomini del disonore
(Milan: Il Saggiatore,
1992); trans. Marc Romano,
Men of Dishonor: Inside the Sicilian Mafia
(New York: Morrow,
1993).
2
. Roberto Saviano,
Gomorra:
viaggio nell’impero economico e nel sogno di dominio della Camorra
(Milan: Mondadori, 2006); trans. Virginia Jewiss,
Gomorrah
(London: Macmillan, 2007).
3
. “Gli investimenti delle mafie,” Progetto PON Sicurezza 2007–2013, Transcrime—Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, February 2013, www.investimentioc.it/files/PON-Presentazione_Linea%201_Gli%20investimenti_delle_mafie.pdf.
4
. Leonardo Sciascia,
Il giorno della civetta (
Turin: Giulio Einaudi, 1961);
trans. Archibald Colquhoun and Arthur Oliver,
The Day of the Owl
(New York: Knopf, 1963).
5
. George Armstrong, “Mafiosi Widen Their Horizons—By Order,”
Guardian,
April 1, 1974.
6
. Nicola Gratteri and Antonio Nicaso,
Fratelli di sangue
(Cosenza: Pellegrini Editore, 2006).
7
. Diego Gambetta,
The Sicilian Mafia: The Business of Private Protection
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996).
Chapter Seventeen: Temptation and
Tangenti
1
. Giuseppe Prezzolini,
Codice della vita italiana
(1921).
2
. “Identifying and Reducing Corruption in Public Procurement in the EU,” European Commission, June 30, 2013, http://ec.europa.eu/anti_fraud/documents/anti-fraud-policy/research-and-studies/identifying_reducing_corruption_in_public_procurement_en.pdf#page=7&zoom=auto,0,480.
3
. Pino Nicotri,
Tangenti in confessionale: Come i preti rispondono a corrotti e corruttori
(Venice: Marsilio Editori, 1993).
4
. See Giovanni Cerruti, “Il Belpaese dei felici e raccomdandati,”
La Repubblica,
July 1, 2008.
5
. Its findings were summarized in Filippo Ceccarelli, “Siamo tutti raccomandati,”
La Repubblica,
November 16, 2007.
Chapter Eighteen: Pardon and Justice
1
. The same remark in slightly different form is ascribed to Giolitti. But whereas I have never been able to find a source for Giolitti’s supposed quip, Mussolini’s appears in Emil Ludwig,
Mussolinis Gespräche mit Emil Ludwig
(1932); trans. Paul Eden and Paul Cedar,
Talks with Mussolini
(1933).
2
. http://old.terrelibere.org/doc/storia-di-tangentopoli.
3
. Luigi Ferrarella,
“Mani pulite, 2,565 imputati,”
Corriere della Sera,
February 17, 2000.
4
. See William T. Pizzi and Mariangela Montagna, “The Battle to Establish an Adversarial Trial System in Italy,”
Michigan Journal of International Law
25, no. 429 (2004); and Giulio Illuminati, “The Frustrated Turn to Adversarial Procedure in Italy,”
Washington University Global Studies Law Review
4, no. 3 (2005).
5
. http://www3.unil.ch/wpmu/space/files/2014/05/Council-of-Europe_SPACE-I-2012-E_Final_140507.pdf.
6
. “Mediaset: il ritratto delle toghe in aula; Il lapsus del presidente Esposito, l’incubo notturno di Ghedini,”
Ansa,
August 1, 2013.
Chapter Nineteen: Questions of Identity
1
.
Faccia d’angelo,
broadcast by Sky Cinema 1 on March 12
and 19, 2012, and by La7 on December 15, 2013.
2
. Ginsborg,
History of Contemporary Italy.
3
. Asher Colombo and Giuseppe Sciortino, “Italian Immigration: The Origins, Nature and Evolution of Italy’s Migratory Systems,”
Journal of Modern Italian Studies
9, no. 1 (2004).
4
. Paolo Jedlowski and Renate Siebert, “Memoria coloniale e razzismo,” in Andrea Mammone, Nicola Tranfaglia and Giuseppe A. Veltri, eds.,
Un paese normale? Saggi sull’Italia contemporanea
(Milan: Baldini Castoldi Dalai, 2011).
5
. Nando Sigona, “Rom e Sinti come ‘problema’: discorso pubblico, politiche e prassi,” in Mammone et al.,
Un paese normale
?
6
. Francesco D’Amuri and Giovanni Peri, “Immigration, Jobs and Employment Protection: Evidence from Europe Before and During the Great Recession,” Banca d’Italia Working Paper 886, October 2012.
7
. “Rapporto Unioncamere 2011.” The figure was put at exactly 12 percent in Unioncamere’s 2012 report, www.starnet.unioncamere.it/Rapporto-Unioncamere-2012_5A33.
Epilogue
1
. Aqib Aslam and Luisa Corrado, “No Man Is an Island:
The Inter-Personal Determinants of Regional Well-Being in Europe,” Cambridge Working Papers in Economics, April 2007.
2
. Eurofound, “Third European Quality of Life Survey—Quality of Life in Europe: Subjective Well-Being” (Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2013).
3
. www.economywatch.com/economic-statistics/Italy/GDP_Per_Capita_Constant_Prices_National_Currency/.
4
. “Burocrazia, se cambiare diventa un’impresa,”
Avvenire,
October 18, 2013.
5
. “47° Rapporto sulla situazione sociale del Paese/2013,” Censis, 2013.
6
. “Face Value: The Troubleshooter,”
Economist,
December 9, 2006.
7
. “Meno morti sulle strade italiane: i nuovi dati Istat,” June 24, 2013, http://assicurazione-auto.supermoney.eu/news/2013/06/meno-morti-sulle-strade-italiane-i-nuovi-dati-istat-0020382.html.
8
. Ginsborg,
History of Contemporary Italy
.
9
. Ian Traynor, “Crisis for Europe as Trust Hits Record Low,”
Guardian,
April 24, 2013, www.theguardian.com/world/2013/apr/24/trust-eu-falls-record-low/.
10
. Giampaolo Pansa,
Poco o niente: Eravamo poveri. Torneremo poveri
(Milan:
Rizzoli, 2011).
Index
The page numbers in this index refer to the printed version of this book. To find the corresponding locations in the text of this digital version, please use the “search” function on your e-reader. Note that not all terms may be searchable. Additionally, page numbers in
italics
refer to maps.
abortion, 129, 137, 149, 162–63
Abruzzo, 6–7, 155
n,
168, 184
Academy Awards, 144
n,
188, 292
AC Milan, 83, 205–7
adultery, 159–61
advertising, 76–77, 146, 157, 161, 173, 282
Africa, Africans, 48, 147, 196, 241, 279, 280, 282, 283
North, 5, 99, 198, 200, 236
agriculture, 8, 128, 130, 184, 240
Albania, Albanians, 27, 229, 286
Alberti, Leon Battista, 184
alcohol consumption, 197–98
Alexander VI, Pope, 122
Alfonso V, king of Aragon, 19
Allende, Salvador, 38
Alps, Italian, 5–6, 9–10, 16, 22, 124, 197, 235, 270–71
Alto Adige/Südtirol region, 10, 26
Alvaro, Corrado, 164–65
Amalfi, 18, 275
Amalfi Coast, 7, 10
amare, volere bene
vs., 163
amnesty, 48, 254–55, 283
“amoral familism,” 182–85, 195
Anagrafe degli Italiani Residenti all’Estero (AIRE), 279
Andreotti, Giulio, 175
n,
245
anti-Fascism, 290, 291
Apennines, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11
Appunto 21, 53–54
architecture, 3, 4, 76
Aristotle, 81
armed forces, 42, 58–59, 120–21, 236
Arte Povera, 111
arts, 3–4, 12, 19, 21, 59, 63, 76
aversion to change in, 111–12
Jewish contributions to, 123–24
arugula (
Eruca sativa
), 100–101
Ash Wednesday, 93
Asia, 48, 65
Aspromonte, 6, 233
AS Roma, 70, 209, 210, 212, 213
Associazione Cristiane Lavoratori Italiani (ACLI), 128
Associazione Nazionale Magistrati (ANM), 267
Atlanticism, 290
Aurelian Walls, 2–4, 22, 30
Austria, Austrians, 22, 26, 92, 277
Austro-Hungary, 10–11, 35
Avvenire,
130–31
Azione Cattolica Italiana, 128, 132
Azzurri, Gli
(“The Blues”), 204–5
Balkans, 31, 284
bamboccioni
(stay-at-home children), 179–81
Banfield, Edward, 182–84, 195
Bari, 18, 266
baroni
(professors), 225
Barzini, Luigi, 4, 191
Basilicata region, 6, 25, 28, 43, 107, 182–84, 192–93, 229
n
beauty, 26, 76, 85, 87–88, 93, 158
beauty contests, 151–52, 274, 279
bella figura,
85–88
Benedict XVI, Pope, 44–45, 131
Berlin Wall, fall of, 31, 81
Berlusconi, Silvio, 3, 54, 59, 61, 125, 146, 149–50, 185, 191, 207, 221, 258–59
attitude toward corruption, 247–48
