Background
Terranova was born in Corleone, Sicily in 1890 to parents Bernardo Terranova and Angelina Piazza.
Terranova was born in Corleone, Sicily in 1890 to parents Bernardo Terranova and Angelina Piazza.
In 1903, Nicolo"s sister Salvatrice Terranova married Ignazio "the Wolf" Lupo, who was running the Black Hand organization in Little Italy, Manhattan. Lupo went on to become underboss of the Morello crime family. In 1910, when Lupo and Giuseppe Morello were arrested for counterfeiting, Terranova, now known as Nicholas Morello, became the boss of the Morello crime family.
Soon after a peace conference was called between the two warring groups, but Morano refused Morello"s offer and open warfare continued.
The war between New York"s Sicilian Mafia and Neapolitan Camorra lasted for over two years. On September 7, 1916, Nicholas Morello and his bodyguard Charles Ubriaco were killed by Morano"s men outside Vollero"s Cafe, a local Navy Street restaurant in Brooklyn.
Morano, Vollero, and several underlings were soon arrested, and in 1917 they were all convicted of Morello"s murder.
In 1916, members of the Morello family killed Camorra member Nick Delegate Guido. With Morano and top members of the Camorra sentenced to life imprisonment the war ended soon afterward and the Neapolitan Camorra was assimilated into the Sicilian Mafia by 1919.