Abbreviations
Copies of the sources marked with an asterisk (*) are deposited at the Cambridge University Library. Volumes and pages in these copies do not always coincide with those in the copies held in the archives of the Tribunale of Palermo.
PARLIAMENTARY AND JUDICIAL SOURCES
CPM | Commissione Parlamentare d'inchiesta sul fenomeno della Mafia: VIIIX legislatures, Documentazione allegata alla Relazione conclusiva, vols. 1, 2, 3 (tomi ii), 4 (tomi xxviii), 5, Roma 1985. |
OSAG(*) | Ordinanza Sentenza per Corte di Assise di Agrigento contro Ferro Antonio+55, Agrigento maggio 1986. |
OSAG Arnone | Arnone G. (ed.) 1988, Mafia. Il processo di Agrigento. Monreale: Edizioni La Zisa (this book contains files attached to OSAG). |
OSPA(*) | Ordinanza Sentenza per Corte di Assise di Palermo contro Abbate Giovanni+706, Palermo 8/11/1985, 40 vols. |
OSPA Stajano | Stajano C. (ed.) 1986, Mafia. L'atto di accusa dei giudici di Palermo. Roma: Editori Riuniti (this book contains a few sections from OSPA). |
OSPA-ii(*) | Ordinanza Sentenza della Corte di Assise di Palermo contro Abdel Azizi Afifi+91, Palermo 16/8/1986, 5 vols. |
SSPA 17/1/86 | Sentenza della Corte di Assise di Appello Palermo contro Pravat Michelangelo + 7. |
SSPA 26/1/85 | Sentenza della Corte di Assise di Palermo contro Pravat Michelangelo + 7. |
TESTIMONIES OF MAFIOSI WHO TURNED STATE WITNESSES
AC(*) | Testimony of Antonino Calderone given to Giudice Istruttore of Marseilles Michel Debacq and to the Commissione Rogatoria Internazionale including Giudice Istruttore of Palermo Giovanni Falcone et alii, from 19 March 1987 to 25 June 1988, 4 vols. |
FMM(*) | Testimony of Francesco Marino Mannoia given to Giudice Istruttore of Palermo Giovanni Falcone et alii, from 8 October 1989 to 19 June 1990. |
FMM-A | Transcripts of the recordings of court hearings in Procedimento Penale contro Abbate Giovanni e altri, containing the interrogation of the defendant Francesco Marino Mannoia, Tribunale di Palermo, 4, 5, 7 January 1990. |
LV(*) | Testimony of Leonardo Vitale given to officers from Procura Generale della Repubblica, Police and Carabinieri of Palermo, 30 March 1973. |
MA-L'Ora | Testimony of Melchiorre Allegra given to Police in Castelvetrano in 1937, published in L'Ora, 22-25 January 1962. |
SC(*) | Testimony of Stefano Calzetta given to Consigliere Istruttore della Procura di Palermo Rocco Chinnici et alii, from 12 March 1983 to 28 February 1985, 5 vols. |
SC-GdS | Transcripts of the interrogation of the defendant Stefano Calzetta in Corte d'Assise di Palermo in the trial against Abbate Giovanni+706, published by II Giornale di Sicilia, 10-21 July 1986. |
TB(*) | Testimony of Tommaso Buscetta given to Giudice Istruttore of Palermo Giovanni Falcone et alii, July-August 1984, 3 vols. |
TB-GdS | Transcripts of the interrogation of the defendant Tommaso Buscetta testimony in Corte di Assise of Palermo in the trial against Abbate Giovanni+706, published by Il Giornale di Sicilia, 3-18 April 1986. |
TC(*) | Testimony of Salvatore Contorno given to Giudice Istruttore of Palermo Giovanni Falcone et alii, from October 1984 to June 1985. |
TC-GdS | Transcripts of the interrogation of the defendant Salvatore Contorno in Corte di Assise del Tribunale di Palermo in the trial against Abbate Giovanni+706, published by Il Giornale di Sicilia, 12 April 1986-1 May 1986. |
VM(*) | Testimony of Vincenzo Marsala given to Procuratore Generale della Repubblica of Palermo Raimondo Cerami et alii, from December 1984 to April 1985. |
VM-GdS | Transcripts of the interrogation of the defendant Vincenzo Marsala in Corte d'Assise del Tribunale di Palermo during the trial against PravatAngelo+7, published in Il Giornale di Sicilia, 16-29 May 1987. |
VS(*) | Testimony of Vincenzo Sinagra given to Giudici Istruttori of Palermo Vittorio Aliquo, Domenico Signorino et alii, from 30 November 1983 to 30 April 1985, 2 vols. |
VS-GdS | Transcripts of the interrogation of the defendant Vincenzo Sinagra in the Corte d'Assise of Tribunale di Palermo during the trial against PravatAngelo+7, published in Il Giornale di Sicilia, 15-21 June 1986. |
Acknowledgments
I have been at this book on and off for nearly ten years. I was able to take a major step forward thanks to a British Academy Research Readership, which gave me two blissful years of leave in 2000-2002. Then new projects intruded, especially on suicide attacks, and completing the last 10 percent took me as long as writing the first 90 percentone more thing you can blame on 9/11.
Another cause of my delay was a rather more fortunate oneand I am not referring only to my two children. Unlike the protagonists of this book, whose world is laced with mistrust, violence, and fraudulent communications, I am lucky to inhabit one that enjoys quite extraordinary levels of cooperation, in which what matters is getting an argument or fact right, and in which people are very generous with their ideas. Don't get me wrong; there is no shortage of bad apples in the academic world tooa few of whom earn an honorable mention in the bookbut that isn't surprising. What is surprising is to be able to count on so many kindred spirits. I owe a great debt of gratitude to Michael Biggs, Avinash Dixit, Jon Elster, Peter Hill, Marek Kaminski, Gerry Mackie, Thomas Schelling, Federico Varese, an anonymous reviewer for Princeton University Press, and last but most emphatically not least my wife Valeria Pizzini-Gambetta. They all read the whole manuscript and showered me with stories, sources, comments, and criticisms that made me embark on some thorough rethinking and lengthy revisions. Together they produced a total of forty single-spaced pages, plus myriad e-mails and a countless number of words scribbled by hand on the copies I had given some of them to read. Had they given me fewer and shallower comments, you would not have been deprived of this book for so long!
The list of events and people, young and old, we should blame for my procrastination, while it should definitely exclude me, should include several other sharp friends and colleagues who helped me with individual chapters. On Information as Hostage (), and Marina also helped me with bibliographic searches and editing the manuscript. Finally, many more people sent me stories and suggestionsScott Atran, Robert Ford, Wolfgang Herbert, Stephen Holmes, Velisarios Kattoulas, Chu Yiu Kong, Dan Sperber, Laura Stoker, and Clinton Watson Taylor are those whom I can remember.
My good fortune grew even larger thanks to Ian Malcolm, the editor of this book for the Press. Ian, who is gifted with patience worthy of Job, edited and commented on all the chapters in the book, just as the editors of a bygone era used to dorarae aves now, whom authors are more likely to encounter in their dreams.
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