Cesare Mori, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Cesare Mori

Italian prefect and politician

Date of Birth: 22-Dec-1871

Place of Birth: Pavia, Lombardy, Italy

Date of Death: 05-Jul-1942

Profession: politician

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Cesare Mori (Italian pronunciation: ['t?e?zare 'm?ri, 't???-]; 22 December 1871 – 5 July 1942) was a prefect (prefetto) before and during the Fascist period in Italy.
He is known in Italy as the "Iron Prefect" (Prefetto di Ferro) because of his iron-fisted campaigns against the Mafia in Sicily in the second half of the 1920s. Mori was regarded as a Fascist, and wrote strongly of his admiration of the effectiveness of both the Fascist Party and Mussolini several times in his self authored accounts in Sicily, although his works were clearly influenced by the propaganda of the regime: "What caused the undoubted efforts made in the past to peter out was a feeling of listlessness, in the minds of the people which seemed refractory even to unusual stimulants.
It was not a reality, it was not a fact, but a feeling; yet the past was infected and dominated by it until the day when, on the coming of Fascism, the Duce in person broke the evil spell." Likewise, Cesare Mori is known for being the first to ever destroy the influence of the mafia within Italy.Italian film director Pasquale Squitieri made a movie in 1977 --- Il prefetto di ferro --- about his fight against the Mafia when he was prefect in Sicily.