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# It's Always Been That Way?
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/2220/
- Published: 2005-09-03T00:54:39.000Z
- Updated: 2005-09-03T00:54:39.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: History, #wpChunk

> Frances Elliot, who traveled to Sicily in 1880-81, attended a party given to the city elite by Palermo's leading industrialist, Count Ignazio Florio. She observed: “What struck me most was the sight in the lobby of a table literally covered with all sorts of weapons, handguns, revolvers, knives, sticks, daggers, left by the people invited together with their hats! Such is life in Palermo!”

Diego Gambetta, *The Sicilian Mafia: The Business of Private Protection* (1996), pp. 80-81.