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An ethnography of corruption in Italy poses the problem of dealing with a phenomenon that is perceived to be extensive and which is commonly believed to have been well rooted in the cultural field. Since the huge corruption related scandal of Tangentopoli (1992), 24 years have passed, and yet during this time, although corruption has always been one of the main topics of public discourse, we have seen neither a reduction in corruption scandals, nor a real effort in fighting corruption from a legislative and normative point of view. Even though corruption is strongly perceived as one of the most relevant issues to be addressed, it seems that a feeling of powerlessness is pervading Italian society at all levels. This said, in the following pages I will analyse how corruption practices and the consequent anticorruption discourse are perceived by public officials employed in the city council of Monza, a town located in Lombardy and capital of the homonymous province, which between 2013 and 2014 was beset by a corruption scandal that involved both the private and the public sector. Indeed, the privatepublic sector intersection has proven over the years to be the field in which corruption is mostly found in practice. Over the last 20 years, from Tangentopoli on (details below), many scandals have shown that corrupt systems have their rules, codes and rituals, which help shape a network of solidarity between the public and private sector by creating a selflegitimising and selfindulging environment, in order to put down the moral costs of corruption. The Law in the Matter of Anticorruption (n. 190, approved in 2012) set within new frames the understanding of how corruption works and

The role of the anti-corruption legislation and of ethical values in (re)defining corruption: the case of Monza, Italy