managed to convince most of the members that he was not guilty. However, the La Barbera brothers contested the decision, and they were suspected to be behind the murder of Di Pisa and Manzella. The disagreement led to a bloody conflict between the Grecos and the La Barberas. The war ended with the Ciaculli massacre which changed the Mafia war into a war against the Mafia. It prompted the first concerted anti-mafia efforts by the state in post-war Italy. The Sicilian Mafia Commission was dissolved and of those mafiosi who had escaped arrest many went abroad. Only later did it become clear that Mafia boss Michele Cavataio had killed Di Pisa, according to Tommaso Buscetta after he became a cooperating witness in 1984. Cavataio had lost out to the Grecos in a war of the wholesale market in the mid 1950s. Cavataio killed Di Pisa in the knowledge that the La Barberas would be blamed by the Grecos and a war would be the result. He kept fueling the war through other bomb attacks and killings. Notes References Catanzaro, Raimondo (1988). Il delitto come impresa. Storia sociale della mafia, Milan: Rizzoli, Dickie, John (2004). Cosa Nostra. A history of the Sicilian Mafia, London: Coronet, Lewis, Normann (1964/2003). The Honoured Society: The Sicilian Mafia Observed, London: Eland, Lupo, Salvatore (2009). History of the Mafia, New York: Columbia University Press, Servadio, Gaia (1976), Mafioso. A history of the Mafia from its origins to the present day, London: Secker & Warburg Shawcross, Tim & Martin Young (1987). Men Of Honour: The Confessions Of Tommaso Buscetta, Glasgow: Collins Sterling, Claire (1990). Octopus. How the long reach of the Sicilian Mafia controls the global narcotics trade, New York: Simon & Schuster, Stille, Alexander (1995). Excellent Cadavers. The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic, New York: Vintage 1931 births 1962 deaths Sicilian mafiosi Sicilian Mafia Commission Murdered Mafiosi Gangsters from Palermo People murdered in Italy Deaths by firearm in Italy