Everyone recalls that day 33 years ago: May 23, 1992, a day forever engraved in the collective memory of Italians. It is the day of the Capaci massacre, when a mafia attack on the Palermo-Trapani motorway claims the lives of Giovanni Falcone, his wife Francesca Morvillo, and three escort agents: Vito Schifani, Rocco Di Cillo, and Antonio Montinaro. Pressing the remote control from the hill overlooking Capaci was Giovanni Brusca. Five hundred kilos of explosives, placed under a tunnel and prepared by bomb technician Pietro Rampulla, blew up the magistrate’s Fiat Croma. The judge dies quickly, and his wife, who is also a magistrate, dies shortly after in the hospital. Only the driver, Giuseppe Costanza, survived. That day, which went down in history as the “attentatuni” (the big attack), as one of the perpetrators - Gioacchino La Barbera - later called it, was the moment when Cosa Nostra attempted to settle accounts with the man who, more than any other, had been able to strike at its core. Falcone was more than just a magistrate: he was a symbol. Thanks to the testimony of justice collaborators such as Tommaso Buscetta, he has reconstructed the mafia's military and top-down organization, identifying its commanders and executioners. He presided over the maxi-trial in Palermo alongside Paolo Borsellino and the other magistrates in the pool supervised by Antonino Caponnetto, bringing 474 defendants to the bar. Borsellino was attacked exactly 57 days later, on July 19, 1992. Another tragic and indelible date, which together with May 23 has forever marked the history of the Republic