Sciascia uses the term to indicate that bravado swaggering behavior of abuse made against honest, typical of bullies, that the soldiery in the service of bullies lords of medieval origin. Ha, I think, less to do with the ancient concept of Aretha, characteristic of ancient Greece, which is the value of man as capable of killing enemies and defend himself, his stuff and his friends. And in the early cultures of the peninsula, where the state has not had the strength and the ability to govern the situation with the authority law and justice, this bravado has proven itself, calling guapperia in Naples, Balent in Sardinia, mafia in Sicily. Interesting, then, is to reconstruct the etymology of the word 'Ndrangheta, which indicates the same attitude in Calabria and gave rise to the corresponding crime. The word 'Ndrangheta derives from the greek word, and Calabria was Magna Grecia, andragathos [Andros (Kalòs kai) Agathos] that is a man of value.
