Tra la fine di un mondo e l'inizio di un altro : Gli anni '70 in Italia

The article focuses on the first judicial investigations into political corruption in Italy and the so-called "Piccoli law" on party financing, approved in May 1974, which was an attempt to respond to the investigations into oil bribes in February of the same year. Despite this, the approval of the Piccoli law did not succeed in putting an end to the system of illegal financing of politics. Indeed, in the following years, a series of judicial investigations began that delegitimized the Italian political system. From this perspective, the political-judicial events of the Seventies can also be read as the first half of a political-cultural battle, as well as a judicial one, which ended only with the Tangentopoli period. [Publisher's Text]