L’utopia palermitana: i gesuiti nella «primavera» dell’antimafia

Between 1979 and 1993, the history of Sicily and Italy was marked by a season of systematic violence produced by Cosa nostra against the men of the institutions and civil society most exposed in the fight against the mafia. In this spiral of violence, Cosa nostra uses methods largely inspired by ter...

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Main Author: Diego Gavini
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: École Normale Supérieure de Lyon Editions 2019-02-01
Series:Laboratoire Italien
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/laboratoireitalien/2837
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description Between 1979 and 1993, the history of Sicily and Italy was marked by a season of systematic violence produced by Cosa nostra against the men of the institutions and civil society most exposed in the fight against the mafia. In this spiral of violence, Cosa nostra uses methods largely inspired by terrorism. The confrontation between the State and the mafia takes the form of an ongoing war, which causes a change in the perception of the mafia phenomenon. In this context, the action of grassroots organizations emerged independently from traditional parties. The city went through a process of renewal in the name of the struggle against the mafia. In the second half of the Eighties, the figure of the Christian Democrat mayor Leoluca Orlando became the symbol of what has been defined as the “spring” of Palermo. A significant contribution to Palermo’s antimafia comes from the Catholic area, inspired by the post-Council spirit. The Jesuits play an important role in this renewal especially Fathers Pintacuda and Sorge. Their history allows us to observe both the “spring” season of Palermo, with its ferments of renewal and its contradictions, and, widening the scope, to Italy, to seize the decline of the First Republic system under the attack of Mafia violence.
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L’utopia palermitana: i gesuiti nella «primavera» dell’antimafia
Laboratoire Italien
mafia
antimafia
Palermo
1979-1993
Jesuits
Leoluca Orlando
title L’utopia palermitana: i gesuiti nella «primavera» dell’antimafia
title_full L’utopia palermitana: i gesuiti nella «primavera» dell’antimafia
title_fullStr L’utopia palermitana: i gesuiti nella «primavera» dell’antimafia
title_full_unstemmed L’utopia palermitana: i gesuiti nella «primavera» dell’antimafia
title_short L’utopia palermitana: i gesuiti nella «primavera» dell’antimafia
title_sort l utopia palermitana i gesuiti nella primavera dell antimafia
topic mafia
antimafia
Palermo
1979-1993
Jesuits
Leoluca Orlando
url http://journals.openedition.org/laboratoireitalien/2837
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