The family's history includes events best forgotten.

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.

It is well established that this methodology is problematic.

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).