"The clothes were made only of Governors of pockets," says the Giulio Cesare of Brecht. Politicians, government officials, businessmen, profiteers of every stripe: they all met on their way to the subtle and penetrating stench of corruption, from the Latin for Verre swindlers dall'Alighieri described by Fouquet to Craxi, the followers of Simon Magus to large English sellers in the Italian public positions. Over time, changing the forms of extortion and their interpretation and so we see the transition from the ancient societies of the gift to the modern moral issue: a journey to hell in which the author takes us through the events of the scandal Gold ARPAL , South Sea Bubble, the deal of the Banca Romana, "Clean Hands" investigation and financial hazards to the origins of the last economic crisis. From the age of Machiavelli that of Berlusconi, little has changed: if the prevailing 'the tangent clean' and 'exchange in nature "than the usual splint rustling notes, no one really thinks that the underworld is extirpated from human habits. But there are moments in history where the stench of corruption becomes so unbearable that request, even before the judicial or political action, a genuine awareness on the part of all. To avoid habituation to prevail for the worst or the tendency to forget of those who are still convinced, as he Longanesi, "the conclusion is that the moral fables."
