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[[File:~~Placeholder~~|right~~|300px~~]]'''Calogero ''Don Calò'' Vizzini''' (July 24, 1877 – July 10, 1954) was a historical [[Mafia]] boss of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villalba,_Italy Villalba] in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Caltanissetta Province of Caltanissetta], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicily Sicily]. Vizzini was considered to be one of the most influential and legendary Mafia bosses of Sicily after [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II World War II] until his death in 1954. In the media he was often depicted as the "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capo_di_tutti_capi boss of bosses]" – although such a position does not exist in the loose structure of Cosa Nostra.

[[File:Calogero Vizzini.jpg|thumb|218px|right]]'''Calogero ''Don Calò'' Vizzini''' (July 24, 1877 – July 10, 1954) was a historical [[Mafia]] boss of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villalba,_Italy Villalba] in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Caltanissetta Province of Caltanissetta], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicily Sicily]. Vizzini was considered to be one of the most influential and legendary Mafia bosses of Sicily after [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II World War II] until his death in 1954. In the media he was often depicted as the "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capo_di_tutti_capi boss of bosses]" – although such a position does not exist in the loose structure of Cosa Nostra.

He was the archetype of the paternalistic "man of honour" of a rural Mafia that disappeared in the 1960s and 1970s. In those days a mafioso was seen by some as a social intermediary and a man standing for order and peace. Although he used violence to establish his position in the first phase of his career, in the second stage he limited recourse to violence, turned to primarily legal sources of gain, and exercised his power in an open and legitimate fashion.

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	[[File:~~Placeholder~~\|right~~\|300px~~]]'''Calogero ''Don Calò'' Vizzini''' (July 24, 1877 – July 10, 1954) was a historical [[Mafia]] boss of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villalba,_Italy Villalba] in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Caltanissetta Province of Caltanissetta], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicily Sicily]. Vizzini was considered to be one of the most influential and legendary Mafia bosses of Sicily after [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II World War II] until his death in 1954. In the media he was often depicted as the "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capo_di_tutti_capi boss of bosses]" – although such a position does not exist in the loose structure of Cosa Nostra.		[[File:Calogero Vizzini.jpg\|thumb\|218px\|right]]'''Calogero ''Don Calò'' Vizzini''' (July 24, 1877 – July 10, 1954) was a historical [[Mafia]] boss of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villalba,_Italy Villalba] in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Caltanissetta Province of Caltanissetta], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicily Sicily]. Vizzini was considered to be one of the most influential and legendary Mafia bosses of Sicily after [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II World War II] until his death in 1954. In the media he was often depicted as the "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capo_di_tutti_capi boss of bosses]" – although such a position does not exist in the loose structure of Cosa Nostra.

	He was the archetype of the paternalistic "man of honour" of a rural Mafia that disappeared in the 1960s and 1970s. In those days a mafioso was seen by some as a social intermediary and a man standing for order and peace. Although he used violence to establish his position in the first phase of his career, in the second stage he limited recourse to violence, turned to primarily legal sources of gain, and exercised his power in an open and legitimate fashion.		He was the archetype of the paternalistic "man of honour" of a rural Mafia that disappeared in the 1960s and 1970s. In those days a mafioso was seen by some as a social intermediary and a man standing for order and peace. Although he used violence to establish his position in the first phase of his career, in the second stage he limited recourse to violence, turned to primarily legal sources of gain, and exercised his power in an open and legitimate fashion.