Fighting the Mafia and Renewing Sicilian CultureFighting the Mafia is the story of Sicily's Thirty Years War and of the role Orlando played in the Antimafia. Drawn to politics, Orlando became a councilman in Palermo and then the city's mayor. Setting out on an independent course to create a culture of lawfulness, he became part of a triumvirate leading the resistance against Cosa Nostra. Along was Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, he would be marked for death by the Mafia. |
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