Danilo Dolci brought to the crime-ridden landscape the townsman's wide-eyed question: why are things just so?

ECONOMIST: Danilo Dolci

Mr Dolci did not really lead this slow process, but he was one of its precursors.

ECONOMIST: Danilo Dolci

Some of the romantic northerners in Mr Dolci's chaotic Centro Studi in Partinico longed for an occasional shot their way.

ECONOMIST: Danilo Dolci

By the end of Mr Dolci's life the Christian Democrats, some of whose leaders had taken Mafia money, were defunct.

ECONOMIST: Danilo Dolci

Simona Walters, a former accountant from Italy, opened Dolci Follie last November after finding the service in British lingerie stores frustrating.

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"We're 20 years behind the U.S. and Europe in terms of consumer awareness, " said Dolci, coordinator of the Proteste consumer defense group.

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Danilo Dolci was always short of, and careless of, money, although he was helped out from time to time, especially by English families whose fortunes came from the trade in Marsala, the sweet wine of Sicily.

ECONOMIST: Danilo Dolci

Mr Dolci became famous as a Mafia-fighter.

ECONOMIST: Danilo Dolci