I'm thinking this girl had every reason to kill the Don. The only problem is like Palermo says, now that he's dead she will never merge the two families together.
Francesca is genuine in her disappointment of the Dons death. I think she is just too caught up in herself and her family to be concerned with it at this moment in time. For one thing, how is she going to become the head of two families? What is her purpse in even being at this gather now that he's gone, or for that matter... do these two families get along? According to history one mafia family usually claims jurisdiction over a certain area or town. Are they from different towns? Or maybe they are feuding families.
Reasons why she might have killed the Don include her will to run two families and merge together a larger body of people at her beckon call, also to be more powerful in the relationship. Perhaps he was only supposed to be sick, and not actually die.
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Information on Specific Gangs in St. Louis
I found some breakdowns of specific crimes and situations that the different gangs in St. Louis were known for. It was pretty interesting, and I had no idea that Italian crime moved up here from New Orleans, but I guess then again, why would I know that. here is the link: http://americanmafia.com/Cities/St_Louis.html
The Ten Comandaments
In November 2007 Sicilian police reported to have found a list of "Ten Commandments" in the hideout of mafia boss Salvatore Lo Piccolo. Similar to the Biblical Ten Commandments, they are thought to be a guideline on how to be a good mobster. The commandments are as follows:[22]
1. No-one can present himself directly to another of our friends. There must be a third person to do it.
2. Never look at the wives of friends
3. Never be seen with cops.
4. Don't go to pubs and clubs.
5. Always being available for Cosa Nostra is a duty - even if your wife's about to give birth.
6. Appointments must absolutely be respected.
7. Wives must be treated with respect.
8. When asked for any information, the answer must be the truth.
9. Money cannot be appropriated if it belongs to others or to other families.
10. People who can't be part of Cosa Nostra: anyone who has a close relative in the police, anyone with a two-timing relative in the family, anyone who behaves badly and doesn't hold to moral values.
1. No-one can present himself directly to another of our friends. There must be a third person to do it.
2. Never look at the wives of friends
3. Never be seen with cops.
4. Don't go to pubs and clubs.
5. Always being available for Cosa Nostra is a duty - even if your wife's about to give birth.
6. Appointments must absolutely be respected.
7. Wives must be treated with respect.
8. When asked for any information, the answer must be the truth.
9. Money cannot be appropriated if it belongs to others or to other families.
10. People who can't be part of Cosa Nostra: anyone who has a close relative in the police, anyone with a two-timing relative in the family, anyone who behaves badly and doesn't hold to moral values.
Background on the Mafia or Cosa Nostra
The Mafia (also known as Cosa Nostra) is a Sicilian criminal secret society which first developed in the mid-19th century in Sicily. An offshoot emerged on the East Coast of the United States and in Australia[1] during the late 19th century following waves of Sicilian and Southern Italian emigration (see also Italian diaspora). In North America, the Mafia often refers to Italian organized crime in general, rather than just traditional Sicilian organized crime. According to historian Paolo Pezzino: "The Mafia is a kind of organized crime being active not only in several illegal fields, but also tending to exercise sovereignty functions – normally belonging to public authorities – over a specific territory..."[2]
The Sicilian Cosa Nostra is a loose confederation of about one hundred Mafia groups, also called cosche or families, each of which claims sovereignty over a territory, usually a town or village or a neighborhood of a larger city, though without ever fully conquering and legitimizing its monopoly of violence. For many years, the power apparatuses of the single families were the sole ruling bodies within the two associations, and they have remained the real centers of power even after superordinate bodies were created in the Cosa Nostra beginning in the late 1950s (the Sicilian Mafia Commission).[3]
Some observers have seen "mafia" as a set of attributes deeply rooted in popular culture, as a "way of being", as illustrated in the definition by the Sicilian ethnographer, Giuseppe Pitrè, at the end of the 19th century: "Mafia is the consciousness of one's own worth, the exaggerated concept of individual force as the sole arbiter of every conflict, of every clash of interests or ideas."[4]
Many Sicilians did not regard these men as criminals but as role models and protectors, given that the state appeared to offer no protection for the poor and weak. As late as the 1950s, the funeral epitaph of the legendary boss of Villalba, Calogero Vizzini, stated that "his 'mafia' was not criminal, but stood for respect of the law, defense of all rights, greatness of character. It was love." Here, "mafia" means something like pride, honour, or even social responsibility: an attitude, not an organization. Likewise, in 1925, the former Italian Prime Minister Vittorio Emanuele Orlando stated in the Italian senate that he was proud of being mafioso, because that word meant honourable, noble, generous.[5][6]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia
The Sicilian Cosa Nostra is a loose confederation of about one hundred Mafia groups, also called cosche or families, each of which claims sovereignty over a territory, usually a town or village or a neighborhood of a larger city, though without ever fully conquering and legitimizing its monopoly of violence. For many years, the power apparatuses of the single families were the sole ruling bodies within the two associations, and they have remained the real centers of power even after superordinate bodies were created in the Cosa Nostra beginning in the late 1950s (the Sicilian Mafia Commission).[3]
Some observers have seen "mafia" as a set of attributes deeply rooted in popular culture, as a "way of being", as illustrated in the definition by the Sicilian ethnographer, Giuseppe Pitrè, at the end of the 19th century: "Mafia is the consciousness of one's own worth, the exaggerated concept of individual force as the sole arbiter of every conflict, of every clash of interests or ideas."[4]
Many Sicilians did not regard these men as criminals but as role models and protectors, given that the state appeared to offer no protection for the poor and weak. As late as the 1950s, the funeral epitaph of the legendary boss of Villalba, Calogero Vizzini, stated that "his 'mafia' was not criminal, but stood for respect of the law, defense of all rights, greatness of character. It was love." Here, "mafia" means something like pride, honour, or even social responsibility: an attitude, not an organization. Likewise, in 1925, the former Italian Prime Minister Vittorio Emanuele Orlando stated in the Italian senate that he was proud of being mafioso, because that word meant honourable, noble, generous.[5][6]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia
Words I didn't really understand but now I do
Page 4
"And it will be my fiance's CAPITAL that will start it."
CAPITAL: the wealth, whether in money or property, owned or employed in business by an individual, firm, corporation, etc.
Page 9
"As CONSIGLIERE, you will move up now and become the new Don."
CONSIGLIERE: a member of a criminal organization or syndicate who serves as an adviser to the leader.
Page 11
"That women's a mortadell."
MORTADELLA?: a large Italian sausage of pork, beef, and pork fat chopped fine, seasoned with garlic and pepper, cooked, and smoked.
"And it will be my fiance's CAPITAL that will start it."
CAPITAL: the wealth, whether in money or property, owned or employed in business by an individual, firm, corporation, etc.
Page 9
"As CONSIGLIERE, you will move up now and become the new Don."
CONSIGLIERE: a member of a criminal organization or syndicate who serves as an adviser to the leader.
Page 11
"That women's a mortadell."
MORTADELLA?: a large Italian sausage of pork, beef, and pork fat chopped fine, seasoned with garlic and pepper, cooked, and smoked.
Introduction
I just got this role today. This is the character breakdown version of Francesca.
FRANCESCA: the beautiful, manipulative head of the Delorossa crime family, she is also Don Vincenzo's girlfriend, having displaced his late wife while she was still living; she is anxious to merge her crime family with the Maranzano crime family.
FRANCESCA: the beautiful, manipulative head of the Delorossa crime family, she is also Don Vincenzo's girlfriend, having displaced his late wife while she was still living; she is anxious to merge her crime family with the Maranzano crime family.
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