San Leoluca (saint), 101
San Luca, 39, 40–44, 55, 59, 117, 119, 151, 152, 153, 166, 167, 188
San Martino (saint), 101
San Placido (saint), 101, 103
Santa Maria del Carmelo, 83
Santa Maria della Pietà in Kalsa, 81, 83, 84, 85
Santa Maria di Polsi (pilgrimage site), 50–51, 53–54, 55
Santapaola, Nitto, 88
Santa Rosalia, 103
Santa Rosalia, church of, 107–108, 109, 110, 176–177
Sarno, Carmine, 217–225, 230–231, 233
Sarno, Ciro, 218, 223, 232
Saviano, Roberto, 229
Scarantino, Vincenzo, 181
Scarpinato, Roberto, 118
Schifani, Renato, 142, 189
Schifani, Rosaria, 30–33
Schifani, Vito, 29, 30
Schindler’s List (film), 197–198
Sciascia, Leonardo, 167
Scopa, 24
Scopelliti, Antonino, 86
Secret codes, 89–90
Selinunte, 52
high-security detentions, 136, 208
Servizio Centrale in Rome, 4, 5
Shobha (photographer), 3, 24, 37–38, 41, 47, 52–53, 56, 58, 60, 62, 69–70, 72, 76, 79, 81, 82, 92–93, 97, 106–107, 113, 127, 141, 159–160, 165, 200, 213, 216–217, 229–230, 237, 239, 249–250
mother of, 26, 62. See also Battaglia, Letizia
ransacked house of, 187
Sicilcassa bank, 132
Sicilians/Sicily, 2, 10, 24, 27, 33, 42
bridge between Sicily and mainland, 139
percentage of population in Mafia, 121
Sicilian language/dialect, 13, 89, 155, 206
Sicula Brokers, 189
Slush funds, 227
Smuggling, 227, 229
Socialist Party, 134, 135
Solidarność activists, 69
South/Central America, 42, 43
Spain, 43
Sprenger, Heinz, 149–150, 151–152, 154–155
Stein, Edith, 87
Strangio, Don Pino. See Don Pino
Strangio, Maria, 153
Strangio, Sebastiano, 48, 151
Superglue, 246
Surveyors’ architecture, 29
Tangentopoli scandal, 135
Tax avoidance, 227
Terremotati, 223
Toxic waste, 216
Trapani, 68, 169, 238–240, 243
Trimboli, “Don Micu,” 43
Turncoats, 4, 6, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15–16, 21, 64, 83, 86, 88, 91, 100, 103, 133, 135, 136–137, 169, 182, 184, 185, 187, 201, 205, 210, 215, 232
father of murdered child as
turncoat, 242
first turncoat boss, 8
Marcello Fava’s godfather as turncoat, 15–16, 17
Ucciardone prison, 37, 72, 84, 165
maxi-trial in, 73–74, 208, 209
trials of Falcone and Borsellino murderers in, 165
Uruguay, 42, 50
Value systems, 95, 169
Vatican Bank, 9
Vendetta, 167
Venezuela, 42, 50, 245
Vitale, Giusy, 169
Vogel, Bernhard, 123
von Trotta, Margarethe, 31
Weddings, 204
Wiretaps, 57, 138–139, 142, 143, 154, 167, 169. See also Bugs
Witness regulations at trials, 135, 136–137, 210
Women, 46–47, 54, 60, 103, 146, 155–156, 159–177, 193
Calabrian Mafia women, 188
Cosa Nostra women, 187–188
first female boss, 169
first Sicilian woman accused of Mafia membership, 173
honor killings of unfaithful wives, 180
Mafia wives, 17–18, 47, 55–56, 102, 156, 166, 167, 170, 173–174, 182, 183–186, 193, 194, 197, 199, 241 (see also Women: widows)
only woman lawyer defending Mafia bosses, 201, 208
of San Luca, 167
as sorella d’omertà, 167
widows, 30–33, 72, 83, 179
Women against the Mafia (committee), 162
See also Mangano, Vittorio: daughters of
Zecchin, Franco, 67, 72