Corleone (village)

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Corleone is a small village in Sicily where Vito Corleone was born and raised. He escaped the village after his father, brother and mother were murdered by the local Don, Francesco Ciccio.

Vito returned here in 1925, where he killed Ciccio in revenge, as well as eliminating his top button-men, Mosca and Strollo. He was assissted in this endeavour by Lionele Tommasino, who lost the use of his legs escaping from Ciccio's villa.

Vito's son Michael returned to the village after he killed drugs man Virgil Sollozzo and his bodyguard Captain McCluskey. Michael was protected by Tommasino, now the Don, and stayed in the home of his uncle, Dr. Taza. During this time, Michael fell deeply in love with local girl Apollonia Vitelli and married her soon afterwards. However, she was killed in a car bomb meant for him, and Michael soon returned to New York.

In 1979, Michael came to Corleone to seek Tommasino's advice, as well as to see his son in the opera Cavalleria Rusticana in Palermo. A chain of events masterminded by Liccio Lucchesi and Ozvaldo Altobello saw Tommasino dead at the hands of the assassin Mosca de Montelepre.