sentences:  He was elected as regional deputy in the Sicilian parliament in 1947-1951 and again in 1967-1971 as an independent candidate on the list of the Italian Communist Party (Partito Comunista Italiano, PCI).He worked for "L'Ora" an independent left wing newspaper in Palermo close to the PCI.Other contributors were the writer Leonardo Sciascia and Mauro De Mauro, who mysteriously disappeared in 1970.