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This user was previously known as Mafia Expert.

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  • 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 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.
  • C - Ciccio Cappuccio (1842 – 1892), a legendary guappo and the capintesta (head-in-chief) of the Camorra in Naples.
  • C - Eugénie Fougère (1870 – 1946), a French vaudeville and music hall dancer and singer that introduced the ragtime "cake walk" in Paris after recording "Hello, Ma Baby," in 1899 in New York.
  • 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 - 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.
  • 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.