Capo dei capi
Phrase used to indicate an extremely powerful Mafia boss / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the organized crime position. For the 2007 Italian TV series and the 2001 American TV movie, respectively, see Il Capo dei Capi and Boss of Bosses. For other uses, see Capo (disambiguation).
Capo dei capi (Italian: [ˈkaːpo dei ˈkaːpi]; "boss of [the] bosses") or capo di tutti i capi (Italian: [ˈkaːpo di ˈtutti i ˈkaːpi]; "boss of all [the] bosses") or Godfather (Italian: Padrino) are terms used mainly by the media, public, fiction writers and law enforcement community to indicate a supremely powerful crime boss in the Sicilian or American Mafia who holds great influence over the whole organization. The term was introduced to the U.S. public by the Kefauver Commission in 1950.[1]