Calogero Vizzini

Calogero Don Cal Vizzini was a historical Mafia boss of Villalba in the Province of Caltanissetta, Sicily. Vizzini was considered to be one of the most influential and legendary 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 Cosa Nostra.

Vizzini was born in Villalba, a village in the Province of Caltanissetta, with a population of approximately 4,000 people at the time. This area in the middle of Sicily, known as the Vallone, was a poor region where most people lived off subsistence agriculture. His father, Beniamino Vizzini, was a peasant, but managed to marry into a slightly more welloff family that owned some land. A member of his mothers family, Giuseppe Scarlata, had risen to high eminence in the Catholic Church. Calogeros brothers, Giovanni and Giuseppe , both became priests in Villalba. Calogero Vizzini, however, was semiliterate and did not finish elementary school.

Source: Wikipedia