Recensione al volume di I. Sales, S. Melorio, Storia dell'Italia corrotta, Rubbettino, 2019.

The book has a courageous title which immediately shows the perspective taken by the Authors in tackling the issue: not the account of a series of incidents in which corruption comes to the surface, but the need to contextualise these happenings in a theory that sees corruption as a systematic characteristic of the history of Italy. The aspect that emerges from the very first pages is the absolute ordinariness of corruption as a distinctive feature of Italian events. This is the idea that prompts the question examined by the book: “Why did what happened keep on happening?”