Bernardo Provenzano

Bernardo Provenzano

male, 76 years old
sicilian mafia, Mob boss, Italian, Binnu u tratturi, capo di tutti capi, Sicilian mafiosi serving life sentences…Sicilian language, sicilian, Sicilian mafiosi
Bernardo Provenzano (Corleone, January 31, 1933) is a member of the Sicilian Mafia ("Cosa Nostra") and is suspected of being the head of the...
Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello

male, deceased (1936)
University of Bonn alumni, from the Province of Agrigento, sicilian, nobel prize in literature, Italian, Former student of the University of Bonn
Luigi Pirandello (June 28, 1867 - December 10, 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, and short story writer awarded the Nobel Prize in...
Vincenzo Florio

Vincenzo Florio

male, deceased (1959)
marsala, painter, Italian, Florio, wine, wein…sicilian
Vincenzo Florio, Jr. (March 18 1883 - January 6 1959]) was an Italian industrialist in the wine industry of Sicily, famous for establishing the...
Andrea Camilleri

Andrea Camilleri

male, 84 years old
writer, Italian, Organized crime writer, sicilian, From Sicily, novelist
Andrea Camilleri (born september 6, 1925) is an Italian writer.
Leonardo Sciascia

Leonardo Sciascia

male, deceased (1989)
The Moro Affair, The Day of the Owl, from the Province of Agrigento, Equal Danger, Christian Democrat, sicilian
Leonardo Sciascia (Racalmuto, Agrigento, January 8, 1921 - Palermo, November 20, 1989) was an Italian writer and politician. Sciascia, (pronounced...
Salvatore Giuliano

Salvatore Giuliano

male, deceased (1950)
black market, black marketeer, bandit, sicilian, Robin Hood, separatist
Salvatore Giuliano (Montelepre, November 16, 1922 - Castelvetrano, July 5, 1950) was a Sicilian bandit, black marketeer, and separatist, who has...

Theocritus

male
Alexandria, Pharmkeutra, Ptolemy II, bucolic, Doric, 3rd century BC…sicilian
Theocritus, the creator of ancient Greek bucolic poetry, flourished in the 3rd century BC. Little is known of him beyond what can be inferred from...
Giovanni Verga

Giovanni Verga

male, deceased (1922)
Literary realism, The Carbonari of the Mountain, libretto, University of Catania, Italian, Malaria…sicilian
Giovanni Verga (2 September 1840 - 27 January 1922) was an Italian realist writer, best known for his depictions of life in Sicily, and especially...
Diodorus Siculus

Diodorus Siculus

male
Bibliotheca historica, angry mob, Classical geography, Ptolemaic Egypt, Chronica, BC death…sicilian
Diodorus Siculus (Greek), ca. 90 BC- ca. 30 BC, was a Greek historian, born at Agyrium in Sicily (now called Agira). Jerome writes that Diodorus...
Vincenzo Bellini

Vincenzo Bellini

male, deceased (1835)
buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery, Italian opera composer, composer, Opera composer, Romantic composer, Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini…sicilian
Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini (November 3, 1801 - September 23, 1835) was a Sicilian opera composer. Known for his flowing melodic...