Michele Pantaleone, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Michele Pantaleone

Italian sociologist

Date of Birth: 30-Nov-1911

Place of Birth: Villalba, Sicily, Sicily, Italy

Date of Death: 12-Feb-2002

Profession: screenwriter, writer, politician, journalist, sociologist, criminologist

Nationality: Italy

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Michele Pantaleone (1911 – 12 February 2002) was a respected journalist and expert on the Sicilian Mafia and one of the first to shed light on the links between organized crime and political power. Pantaleone was born in Villalba, a village in a poor region of Sicily, where most people lived of subsistence agriculture, which was also the home town of the prominent Mafia boss Calogero Vizzini.
Pantaleone came from a relatively well off family and was trained as a land surveyor.
Initially a leading member of the Italian Socialist Party (Partito Socialista Italiano, PSI) in Villalba he later switched to the Italian Communist Party (Partito Comunista Italiano, PCI).