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Welcome to the userpage of DonCalo. I mainly work on Italian organized crime and related issues. This user was previously known as Mafia Expert.
This user is old enough to remember what a typewriter is, and that's all you need to know.
This user often makes mistakes while typing, and would like to take this oppurtunity to aoplogiae.
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GACalogero Vizzini (1877 – 1954), the Mafia boss of Villalba who was considered to be one of the most influential Mafia bosses of Sicily after World War II until his death in 1954. In the media he was often depicted as the "boss of bosses" – although such a position does not exist in the loose structure of the Mafia.
GAVito Cascioferro (1862 – 1943 or 1945), also known as Don Vito, a prominent member of the Sicilian Mafia. He also operated for several years in the United States.
GAFasci Siciliani, a popular movement of democratic and socialist inspiration, which arose in Sicily in the years between 1889 and 1894.
B - Nicola Barbato (1856 – 1923) was a Sicilian medical doctor, socialist and politician; he was one of the national leaders of the Fasci Siciliani (Sicilian Leagues).
B - Giuseppe Genco Russo (1893 – 1976), an Italian mafioso, the boss of Mussomeli; like Vizzini an archetype of the "man of honour" of a bygone age.
B - Paulus (1845 – 1908), a French singer, entertainer and theatre entrepreneur of the Belle Époque.
B - Gaetano Salvemini (1873 – 1957), an Italian socialist and anti-fascist politician, historian, and writer.
B - Pio La Torre (1927 – 1982), a leader of the Italian Communist Party (Partito Comunista Italiano, PCI), killed by the Mafia after he initiated a law that introduced a new crime, mafia conspiracy, in the Italian legal system.
B - Cuocolo Trial, a trial against the Camorra in 1911-1912 that attracted a lot of attention of newspapers and the general public both in Italy as well as in the United States.
B - Angelo La Barbera (1924 – 1975) , a powerful member of the Sicilian Mafia. Together with his brother Salvatore La Barbera he ruled the Mafia family of Palermo Centro.
C - L'Asino, an Italian magazine of political satire founded in Rome in 1892 that opposed Benito Mussolini's Fascist dictatorship.
C - Saredo Inquiry (1900 – 1901), an official inquiry investigating corruption, bad governance and the Camorra in the city of Naples.
C - Alfred Choubrac (1853 – 1902), a French artist considered to be one of the pioneers of the modern coloured and illustrated poster of the Belle Époque in Paris.
C - Pupetta Maresca (1935 – 2021), a well-known figure in the Camorra, who made international newspaper headlines in the mid-1950s when she killed the murderer of her husband, Pasquale Simonetti, in revenge.
C - L'Ora, a Sicilian daily newspaper published in Palermo. In the 1950s–1980s the paper was known for its investigative reporting about the Sicilian Mafia.
C - Girolamo Li Causi (1896 – 1977), an Italian politician and a leader of the Italian Communist Party who was a prominent figure in the struggle for land reform and against the Mafia in Sicily.
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Calogero Vizzini (1877 – 1954), the Mafia boss of Villalba who was considered to be one of the most influential Mafia bosses of Sicily after World War II until his death in 1954. In the media he was often depicted as the "boss of bosses" – although such a position does not exist in the loose structure of the Mafia.
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