User:DonCalo
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Welcome to the userpage of DonCalo. I mainly work on Italian organized crime and related issues.
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Good articles
- GA 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.
- GA Vito 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.
- GA Fasci Siciliani, a popular movement of democratic and socialist inspiration, which arose in Sicily in the years between 1889 and 1894.
- GA Mauro De Mauro (1921 – 1970), a journalist, disappeared and probably murdered by the Mafia following his investigations on the death of Enrico Mattei and on the Golpe Borghese.
- GA Salvatore A. Cotillo (1886 – 1939), the first Italian-American to serve in both houses of the New York State Legislature and the first who served as Justice of the New York State Supreme Court.
- GA Enrico Alfano (1869 or 1870 – 1940), also known as "Erricone", a former boss of the Camorra in Naples, who was the main defendant in the Cuocolo Trial.
- GA Giosuè Gallucci (1864 – 1915), a crime boss of Italian Harlem affiliated with the Camorra in New York City also known as the undisputed "King of Little Italy".
- GA Adolfo Rossi (1857 – 1921), an Italian journalist, writer and diplomat, who was the only journalist to report firsthand the turmoil in Sicily sparked by the Fasci Siciliani.
Did not quite make it
- B - Banca Romana scandal, a bank and political crisis in 1893 in Italy over the bankruptcy of the Banca Romana.
Working on it
- B - Bernardino Verro (1866 – 1915), a Sicilian syndicalist involved in the Fasci Siciliani, who became the first socialist mayor of Corleone in 1914 and was killed by the Mafia.
- 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 De Felice Giuffrida (1859 – 1920), an Sicilian socialist politician and journalist from Sicily and one of the founders of the Fasci Siciliani
- 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 - Ciccio Cappuccio (1842 – 1892), a legendary guappo and the capintesta (head-in-chief) of the Camorra in Naples.
- B - Eugénie Fougère (1870 – 1946), a French vaudeville and music hall dancer and singer that started her career at the Café des Ambassadeurs, and introduced the ragtime "cake walk" in Paris after recording "Hello, Ma Baby," in 1899 in New York.
- 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.
- B - Cesare Terranova (1921 – 1979), an Italian judge and politician from Sicily, notable for his anti-Mafia stance. He was killed by the Mafia in 1979.
- B - Saredo Inquiry (1900 – 1901), an official inquiry investigating corruption, bad governance and the Camorra in the city of Naples.
- C - Rosario Garibaldi Bosco (1866 – 1936), an Italian Republican-inspired socialist, politician and writer from Sicily, and one of the leaders of the Fasci Siciliani.
- C - L'Asino, an Italian magazine of political satire founded in Rome in 1892 that opposed Benito Mussolini's Fascist dictatorship.
- 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.
- C - Greco Mafia clan, historically one of the most influential Mafia clans in Sicily, from the late 19th century. The cousins Salvatore "Ciaschiteddu" Greco and Salvatore "The Engineer" Greco were also protagonists in the First Mafia War between rival clans in Palermo in the early 1960s.
- C - Anísio Abraão David, an operator in the illegal jogo do bicho lottery (bicheiro) in Rio de Janeiro and the honorary president of the Beija-Flor samba school in Nilópolis.
- C - Francesco Paolo Bontade (1914 – 1974), also known as Don Paolino Bontà, was an influential and powerful member of the Sicilian Mafia.
- C - Renato Candida (1916 – 1988), an Italian carabiniere who served as the inspiration for the character Captain Bellodi, the protagonist of Leonardo Sciascia's best-selling crime novel The Day of the Owl.