The independent men of the Right no longer had the stomach for politics, for 'one can no longer use only honest and legal means, one must act like a gangster (camorrista) if one does not want to be a victim of a gangsterly attack (atto di camorra).

It is well established that this methodology is problematic.

Many of the so-called rites of these secret societies were so patently ridiculous, that it is quite obvious that they were merely an excuse for men and women to indulge in sex-play and lustful gratification, frequently of an abnormal kind.

The family's history includes events best forgotten.