Naples 1343: The Unexpected Origins of the Mafia by Amedeo Feniello,
translated by Antony Shugaar
translated by Antony Shugaar
“What is the source of all this savagery?” wondered Amedeo Feniello on the night three young men were murdered by the Camorra, the Neapolitan Mafia, in front of the school where he worked as a teacher.
A few months later, Feniello quit his teaching job and began another career, as a medieval historian. Naples 1343: The Unexpected Origins of the Mafia, which is the first of Feniello’s books to be translated into English, goes back to that fateful night of January 31, 2005, and links it to another violent event that happened on another night in Naples more than six centuries earlier.
