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Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia John Dickie
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

However, no crime organisation has ever come close to the organisation, power and capabilities of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra. At this period in history, only a small fraction of the Sicilian population could vote, so a single mafia boss could control a sizeable chunk of the electorate and thus wield considerable political leverage. For example the Sacra Corona Unita in Puglia and the Camorra3 in Naples and its environs. Midnight in Sicily: On Art, Food, History, Travel and la Cosa Nostra But at the heart of the island's rare beauty is a network of violence and corruption that reaches into every corner of Sicilian life: Cosa Nostra, the Mafia. The genesis of Cosa Nostra is hard to trace because mafiosi are very secretive and do not keep historical records of their own. Behind La Cosa Nostra are Italian organizations – the four Italian Organized Crime (OC) groups currently active in the United States are the Sicilian Mafia, Camorra, 'Ndrangheta and Sacra Corona Unita' (United Sacred Crown). Until recently, Ernesto Bisanti could not have imagined he would face down the Cosa Nostra (Our Thing)—the Sicilian Mafia. In 1986 Bisanti started a furniture factory in Palermo. Italian investigators initially did not take the term seriously, . Its members usually refer to it as Cosa Nostra (Italian for “our thing”). Similar to the Sicilian Mafia, the American Mafia is a secret criminal society without a formal name. Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia Description. The FBI even added the article La to the term, calling it La Cosa Nostra (in Italy, the article la is not used when referring to the Sicilian Mafia).