摘要：The article is giving an account of statistics on political violence in Italy, including the data on armed groups. The analysis is based on the work of Mauro Galleni »Rapporto sul terrorismo«, corrected in some details by the results of the author. The analysis of the empirical data given is aimed at establishing a relationship between the occurrence of political violence and characteristics of the socio-cultural system in Italy. The fundamental conclusion is that higher stage of socio-cultural development determines intensified, more organized political violence by clandestine armed groups. Geographically, political violence is concentrated in the central part of the country (Rome and Florence). The northern industrial centers are characterized by a large number of armed organizations, mainly leftist, with considerable social base and continuity. Rightist political violence is to a larger extent tied to socio-culturally backward regions — the South — political violence in the South being more spontaneous and diffuse than in the North.
