Because family is at the heart of the Mafia
Sicilian names, first and last, are handed down through the generations. There has probably always been someone named Lucia Marino in Corleone. If we got into a time machine and went back to any of the last 400 years, not only could we meet a Lucia Marino in this town, we could also find a... Continue Reading →
There are two versions of the events of the twenty-seventh of May 1860 in Corleone. There is the version every person from Corleone knows and celebrates in a church festival each spring, in the month following Easter. And then there is what really happened. The popular story is that the revolution that birthed the Italian... Continue Reading →
Mafia Genealogy 