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Wu) to Re sigitian people, which had been perennially bitter. Recourse to legal authority fel lagrases of persecution by private enemies was thought to be a symptom of 210 . werkness, almost of cowardice. It was an exaggeration of the sentiment, 12 hidfbrically more or less common among Latin peoples, that to appeal to la} Zagainet offenses {avolving perronal insult is unmanly, and that the duel 17 * tgithe proper means of recovering Inst honor, Adherents of the Mafia, however, |.” exganded manyfold the scope of offenses they considered to imply personal in$ git. Common theft, for example, was considered a sign of lack of respect Angevating that the thicf did not fear vengeance. The theft must be avenged a ie personal action, or by the vengeance of relatives or friends, Obedience to tedpervertes cole of honor own ane omerta was said to have been another heic and monty characteticsttc, Aa the evolution of the word "Mafia" 3 cGitinued it came to connote behavior which is lawless, violent, brutal, aé evil (37 - i It wes in the climete of this “cngerous set of values that a play he appeared in Lalermo in 1503 entitled: “fl Mafiusi della Vicaria." Vicaria 44 whe the ercat prison of Poiermo; the lofiusi (more common spelling "f Btiost") were prisoners, whn du ing the course of the drama demonstrated 52 -is- ‘ ete oe ak sayin te eat ge . ia J - ae “Rie ot ary Ale eM te