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A Step Forward to Dismantle the Clan “Casalesi”

Police confiscates dumps run by the "Casalesi" clan. Cipriano Chianese, the assets' owner, is identified in Saviano's Gomorrah as one of the Camorra family's leaders.

“O’ Giglio e Paradiso”: An Italian-American Musical Classic

Joey Skee

What the Brooklyn giglio feast and an obscure musician might tell us about Italian-American culture.

Does Misery Love Company? Italy’s Roma

Judith Harris

Few are more miserable these days than the Roma, or Gypsies, in Italy, whose camps are being bulldozed, whose shacks are being firebombed, and whose children now risk being...

From Gomorrah to the Courtroom

Andrea Di Camillo

An appeals court upheld sixteen life imprisonments of members of the most powerful Mafia crime ring in the Naples area in a high-stakes trial on Thursday. A book, Gomorrah, was...

Naples Walks Alone, on Burning and Bloodied Sidewalks

Judith Harris

"The territory is divided into fiefs; leadership is turned over to a capozona (local boss); membership is expanded through blood ties; and they show an extraordinary capacity to...

Learning About Eighteenth-Century Neapolitan Musicians

Eleonora Mazzucchi

A preliminary night of the Neapolitan Music Society Sunday's concert at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò with Professor Robert Gjerdingen.

Mozzarella Politics, Naples (Italy)

Judith Harris

The source of the problem is not the farmer. It is illegal dumping by criminal bands who are in bed with predatory politicians, and this means that the problem is political.