By Thom L. Jones
Italians know Corleone as a small, inland town of about 12000 inhabitants, situated in the highlands of Western Sicily, approximately mid-way between Palermo and Agrigento.
We mostly know Corleone as the name of a fictitious Mafia boss-Don Corleone- the central character in Mario Puzo's 1969 novel The Godfather. Although the use of the town's name as a gang leader is thought to originate with Puzo, it is pre-dated back to 1938 when British author Graham Greene, whose 1938 novel, Brighton Rock, was made into a film in 1947, featured a mobster called Colleoni (phonetically almost a perfect match) who terrorized a seaside town on the south coast of England.
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