Mazzini as the one and only Godfather to the Sicilian Mafia

The French Connection: The Knights of Malta, the Scottish Rite & the Rise of the Mafia Brotherhoods Part III

“Spanish kings ruled Naples and Sicily from 1504 to 1707 and from 1738 to 1860. In the first Spanish reign, a criminal society was founded in Naples called the ‘camorra,’ a Spanish word meaning ‘fight’ or ‘quarrel.’

The infant Camorra was a direct offshoot of the Garduna, and very probably was composed of Spanish Gardunists and native Neapolitians.*[1] During the second Spanish reign, the Camorra gave birth to a new society, the Sicilian Mafia. The connecting link between the Camorra and the Mafia seems to have been the Italian revolutionary hero Guiseppe Mazzini.”

-          David Leon Chandler “Brothers in Blood: The Rise of the Criminal Brotherhoods” (1975)

[This is Part III of this series. For Part I refer here, Part II refer here.]