39 Facts About Salvatore Giuliano

Salvatore Giuliano maintained a band of subordinates for most of his career.

Salvatore Giuliano was a flamboyant, high-profile criminal, attacking the police at least as often as they sought him.

Salvatore Giuliano's parents were landed peasants who had spent some of their earlier lives in the United States where they had earned the money to buy their farmland.

Salvatore Giuliano performed well, but was dismissed from both jobs after disputes with his bosses.

At the time of the Allied Invasion of Sicily in July 1943, Salvatore Giuliano was trading in olive oil.

On 2 September 1943, Salvatore Giuliano was caught at a Carabinieri check point transporting two sacks of black market grain.

When one of the officers raised his weapon, Salvatore Giuliano shot and killed him.

Salvatore Giuliano was shot in the back as he fled.

Salvatore Giuliano escaped, but angered by the dragnet, he shot and killed another officer.

Thanks to Sicily's omerta tradition, local peasants were reluctant to cooperate with law enforcement, and Salvatore Giuliano made them his allies and effective co-conspirators.

Salvatore Giuliano shot Montelepre's postmaster for stealing parcels from America.

Salvatore Giuliano intervened with a local gabelotto, an estate manager, to lease land to farmers from Montelepre.

Salvatore Giuliano kissed her hand and showed respect for her noble status, but then demanded all of her jewelry.

Salvatore Giuliano's campaign was so effective that up to 500 police officers and soldiers were deployed against him.

Salvatore Giuliano helped at least 2 of his men to emigrate to the US The EVIS campaign drew widespread news coverage, and made the bandit an international figure.

Salvatore Giuliano may have been influenced by his interview early in 1947 with US pulp journalist Michael Stern.

Salvatore Giuliano spoke to Stern as though the writer represented the US government, presenting a letter addressed to President Truman.

Pisciotta and eleven other members of the Salvatore Giuliano band were convicted for the massacre in 1952.

Salvatore Giuliano threatened to reveal the names of the men behind his actions but never did.

Salvatore Giuliano's claims were confirmed by a letter delivered in 1969 to Giuseppe Montalbano, a long-time leftist opponent of the reactionary establishment of Sicily.

Salvatore Giuliano was guaranteed a full pardon if he delivered a large majority of the votes in his district.

Salvatore Giuliano, who had held up his end of a bargain, was outraged and promised retaliation.

On 17 July 1948 two local Partinico bandits, hired by Salvatore Giuliano, assassinated Fleres in that town's square.

Thereafter, most of the Mafia organizations worked against Salvatore Giuliano, effectively sealing his eventual fate.

Salvatore Giuliano's kidnapping and extortion rackets still produced sufficient income.

Salvatore Giuliano's second-in-command was Captain Antonio Perenze, who had fought against guerillas in Libya and Ethiopia.

Salvatore Giuliano began by dividing the bandits' operational area into seventy zones, each to be patrolled by 20 men, who were given superior radio communications equipment demanded by Luca.

Under duress in the territory he formerly dominated, Salvatore Giuliano surrendered most of his independence, and retreated to the protection of a Mafia branch in Castelvetrano, near the south coast, headed by Nicola 'The American' Piccione, repatriated from a successful career in the United States.

Salvatore Giuliano agreed to help Giuliano and Pisciotta into exile, although his ultimate aim was almost certainly to kill the bandits and claim credit for the deed.

Salvatore Giuliano fainted upon seeing the body, was revived, and identified her son.

Salvatore Giuliano insisted on kissing the bloodstains on the ground where he had lain in the courtyard.

Salvatore Giuliano had been hiding there since shortly after Giuliano's murder, when the Carabinieri command, who couldn't grant the amnesty he sought, turned him loose.

Salvatore Giuliano became the plaything of political forces he did not understand, when he allowed himself to become the military leader of the Sicilian Separatists.

Salvatore Giuliano was, according to Chandler, audacious, intelligent and astute.

Three residents of Montelepre during the years of Salvatore Giuliano's banditry have added their commentary to the historical record.

The historian Giuseppe Casarrubea, son of one of the victims of Salvatore Giuliano, compiled material to demonstrate that the body buried as Salvatore Giuliano belonged to someone else.

The DNA match between the skeleton and Salvatore Giuliano's relations means that Sicilian prosecutors are now archiving the probe they opened in 2010 into the possibility that someone was murdered and passed off as Salvatore Giuliano.

Salvatore Giuliano's life inspired the novel The Brigand which was adapted for Australian radio by Morris West as Fire of Etna.

An opera, Salvatore Giuliano, was composed in 1985 by Italian composer Lorenzo Ferrero and premiered on 25 January 1986 at Teatro dell'Opera di Roma.