In the "crooks" Carlo Alberto Brioschi tells the story of the relationship between money and politics
Corruption: indifferent or addicted
Dall 'hypocrisy to the boldness, borders Irony of an old phenomenon Demosthenes wrote: "I envy those you leave corrupt, laughable if it openly acknowledges, to hate those who would like to acknowledge" The argument that the author 'is not about the specific problems of our time and of' Italy, but rooted in 'human soul
B onifacio VIII and Craxi, Verre and Fouquet, the' gold of the Bank and the Roman arrival in Moscow from the Dark Shops, placed by the swindlers at Dante 'Inferno and the scandal of Athens' gold Arpal, the simonists medieval and corrupt Tangentopoli. The thesis of Carlo Alberto Brioschi - Head of essays published by Rizzoli, which publishes his books but Longanesi - is that the corruption and malfeasance in general are not specific phenomena of a people or an 'era, but are somehow rooted in history, inherent to' human soul. In 'Italy of today, however, there is a new and disturbing mutation: corruption emerges in the light of the sun, as the "scum that goes up the shaft' of the metaphor coined by Indro Montanelli. You claim in public that the first things you did secretly in private. All 'hypocrisy replacing the cheek. The result is 'an addiction' public opinion that seems to have even more strength to fight back, and the sense of impunity of the powerful (plastically represented by 'joy with which the' other day in the House has celebrated the rejection of the request use the interception of 'Mrs Nicola Cosentino, of which the judiciary has sought' to stop Camorra). The crooks (301 pages, Euro 16, now in bookstores) is a subject on which Brioschi working for fifteen years, since 'he was young reporter Tangentopoli. In 1996 he wrote a book, The Peninsula of the Treasury (Diabasis), in which images of Craxi's return from 'exile in Hammamet and its reconquest of' Italy in the manner of 'loved Giuseppe Garibaldi, beginning with the landing at Marsala. "But, as any attempt to imagine the future, has ended - Briones writes in the foreword - to be superseded by the reality. The 'friend of Ghino of heel, and he generously benefited, Silvio Berlusconi, has risen to power with much greater determination of his predecessor. " After the provocative praise of corruption (Ponte alle Grazie, 1997) and morale Portable (Tea, 2002), Briones has signed in 2006 a brief history of corruption in the underworld is a 'updated and expanded edition. And, in 2007, Rizzoli published The Casta Sergio Rizzo and Gian Antonio Stella, a sage who has changed the political history of 'Italy. Since then, he writes Brioschi, disenchantment el 'indifference grew up in the' public opinion. The crooks no longer give rise to moral indignation and revolt. Yet the 'author identifies two new elements from the past. The most recent scandals, those who said Filippo Ceccarelli The last essay in his slum (Feltrinelli), have sex in the middle, especially the woman's body, the partying at Palazzo Grazioli the resignation of the mayor of Bologna Delbono, through the misadventures of Piero Marrazzo being Gradoli, with the 'the exception of' injury Claudio Scajola paid on the house without his knowledge by the "clique." 'S other new element is the "de-legitimization of collective concern that runs the system, the' clear warning of a model of power that is crumbling." The book ends on this question: If we started on a china fatal corruption and addiction, or whether they're on the eve of the collapse of what has been called Second Republic, and the actors - from the post-communist Berlusconi - who gave her life. But the test has not pressed on this, so it's a romp through the historical periods. Beginning with the "quid pro quo" of the Bible and from 'Arthasastra (under the Indian Amartya Sen Nobel translates as "political economy") of the Brahmin Kautilya, a contemporary of Aristotle, who believed that government should use every means to achieve their goals , and rules of discipline and honesty seem to apply only to subjects, and the chance to prove the dishonesty of a financial officer is remote as to discover "how much water you can drink a fish swimming freely in the 'water'. More or less in the same year the 'Athenian Demosthenes, exiled with his' charges of embezzlement and suicide after returning home, coined a motto that seems to adapt well to this day: "I envy those you leave corrupt, laughable if it recognizes openly, to absolve those who have been caught committing a crime, to hate those who would impeach. " PLAY PRIVATE
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