Marta Cimino e il Comitato dei lenzuoli. Antimafia, cordoglio e mobilitazione nell'Italia degli anni '90

Abstract

In 1992, the massacres in which judges Giovanni Falcone, Francesca Morvillo and Paolo Borsellino lost their lives, along with the women and men who made up their escorts, caused a shock throughout the country. Also for this reason, 1992 is considered a watershed year, a crucial date for the end of the “First Republic”. This essay reconstructs the history of an entirely new attempt at mobilisation, the Committee of the Sheets, which was born spontaneously immediately after the Capaci massacre on the initiative of Marta Cimino, a former militant of the New Left, the daughter of two militants of the Italian Communist Party. For its short life, the Committee was one of the best known expressions of the anti-Mafia movement