A single name can belong to many different lives. “Leonardo Cardillo” appears in university rosters, football-club announcements, newspaper obituaries, court reports, and historical memorials. This article gathers those public traces into one compact map, focusing only on records that are institutional, academic, governmental, or clearly journalistic.
Key Takeaways
Snapshot of a scattered identity
The name “Leonardo Cardillo” is attached to several distinct figures who are part of the public record. One is remembered in an Italian-Australian obituary that gives a full life span, from birth on 20 February 1938 in Catania, Sicily, to death on 15 March 2025 in Kogarah, New South Wales. Another appears as a member of the Libraries Office at the University of Catania, with defined duties in the management of library collections. A third is listed as a shareholder and board member in the reshaped leadership of a Lombardy football club moving into a new era.
The same name also surfaces in coverage of the “Bingo” investigation in the Giarre area of Sicily. Early reports describe an arrest; later articles note that this person was acquitted of all charges. Farther back in time, the name is carved into a war memorial in Mascali, among the fallen of the First World War. Taken together, these entries show how one label can travel across geographies, generations, and roles.
A public-record directory based on these sources can help readers understand that “Leonardo Cardillo” does not point to one individual. It points to many, each with a separate story. By limiting itself to institutional and journalistic documents, the directory avoids turning private social and personal traces into a consolidated file.
Story & Details
Lives behind the shared name
The most complete narrative comes from an obituary. Il Globo, a long-running Italian-Australian newspaper, publishes a funeral notice for a man named Leonardo Cardillo. It records that he was born in Catania, Sicily, on 20 February 1938 and died in Kogarah, New South Wales, on 15 March 2025. The notice lists family, mentions his ties to the community, and gives details of the funeral service. Obituaries of this kind are more than announcements; they are formal acknowledgements of a life, placed into the public archive of a diaspora community [1].
In another setting, the same name appears in an academic context. The Department of Humanities at the University of Catania maintains an official page for its Libraries Office. There, “Leonardo CARDILLO” is listed with responsibilities that include locating and retrieving bibliographic material in the library deposits, monitoring shelving, and contributing to inventory and re-ordering work. A departmental decree outlining the organisation of offices confirms the same name among the staff assigned to the Libraries Office. These documents show a working life rooted in the everyday infrastructure of a university library [2][3].
Sport, ownership, and a small-club transformation
Far from Catania, in the province of Brescia, local and national outlets have covered the transformation of Ospitaletto Franciacorta, a football club preparing for professional competition. Reports from June 2025 describe a reshaped ownership structure, with new capital and a refreshed board. In lists of shareholders and directors, “Cardillo Leonardo” appears alongside other names associated with the club’s future. These articles blend sport and business: they show how a person with this name is part of the governance of a regional team stepping onto a larger stage [4][5][6][7].
The presence of the name in this context is not about goals scored or matches won. It is about responsibility and investment. Shareholder lists and board announcements belong firmly in the public record, especially when a club is moving into higher-profile leagues.
Crime reporting, trials, and an acquittal
The name also appears in a more delicate context: crime and court reporting around the “Bingo” operation in eastern Sicily. In February 2017, several established outlets reported a police operation targeting drug trafficking in the Giarre area. Among the people named in those stories was a young man called “Leonardo Cardillo,” described as one of several arrested in connection with the case.
Those early reports were followed by coverage of the trial. Articles on the outcome of the proceedings explain that some defendants received heavy sentences, while others were acquitted. In particular, one piece notes that Leonardo Cardillo and another defendant were acquitted of all charges by the judge in the abbreviated trial. When the same name appears in both arrest coverage and acquittal reporting, both sides of the story are relevant. Any directory that includes the initial reports should also record the later exoneration, to avoid freezing a moment of suspicion into a permanent, unbalanced label [8][9].
Memory etched in stone
Beyond contemporary news and institutions, the name is also part of the historical record. On a war memorial in Mascali, a town near Catania, “Cardillo Leonardo” appears among the list of fallen soldiers from the 1915–1918 conflict. The monument stands as one of many local efforts to remember those killed in the First World War, and the inscription places the name in a line of civic memory that predates the digital age by a century [10].
In this case, there are no accompanying articles or biographies, only the carved name. Yet the memorial is an institutional artefact too: a piece of stone commissioned, maintained, and documented by public bodies and heritage organisations.
The wider digital cloud that stays unnamed
Searches for “Leonardo Cardillo” do not stop at newspapers, universities, football clubs, court reports, or monuments. The name also appears in personal blogs, question-and-answer sites, reading lists, and social accounts. Many of those traces seem to belong to one or more private individuals who publish frequently under their own name. They write diary-style posts, answer questions online, rate books, share photographs, and join various groups.
Those self-published presences are important for the people who maintain them, but they do not form part of this directory in a link-by-link way. The purpose here is not to assemble every trace of a private person’s activity into a single hub. Instead, the directory points to records that institutions and newsrooms have already placed in the public domain. The existence of a broader digital cloud is acknowledged, yet it remains diffuse, under the control of those who created it.
Building a real directory from these pieces
A practical directory built on these sources can be simple. One page, clearly titled, explains that “Leonardo Cardillo” is a shared name with multiple public-record appearances. A central directory page then gives each confirmed figure a short paragraph, stating the context—university, club, obituary, court case, memorial—and linking to one or two authoritative sources.
Behind the scenes, the site can use basic structured data. An ItemList schema can list each entry and its references, making it easier for search engines to understand that these are separate people who share a name. Titles and descriptions can emphasise the idea of a public-record index rather than a fan page or a personal profile. For anyone responsible for such a site, official documentation and training materials on search visibility and Google Search Console provide a stable technical foundation [11][12].
Conclusions
What one name reveals
Taken together, the records show how a single name can cut across generations and roles. The obituary traces a life from mid-twentieth-century Sicily to a community in Australia. The university pages show an administrative and library career inside a humanities department. Football-club announcements reveal a role in reshaping a regional team’s ownership. Court reporting tells a more turbulent story, but it also records a full acquittal. The war memorial adds a much older layer, tying the same name to the losses of the First World War.
A directory that joins these threads does not try to collapse them into one figure. It simply states that “Leonardo Cardillo” is a phrase the public record uses for different people in different contexts, and it lets each source speak for itself.
Why restraint matters
Restraint is part of the design. By focusing on institutional and journalistic material, the directory avoids turning a common name into a surveillance tool for private lives. It recognises that there is a wide digital shadow made of blogs and profiles, yet it leaves that shadow where it belongs: under the control of the individuals who choose to publish.
The result is a lean map rather than an exhaustive trace: enough to guide a curious reader who types the name into a search bar, without pretending to own the story of every person who shares it.
Selected References
Public sources for the directory
[1] Il Globo. “Leonardo Cardillo” funeral notice (Catania birth, Kogarah death, 1938–2025). https://ilglobo.com/en/obituaries/leonardo-cardillo-125466/
[2] University of Catania, Department of Humanities. Libraries Office staff and duties (includes “Leonardo CARDILLO”). https://www.disum.unict.it/it/content/amministrazione-uffici-e-servizi/9-ufficio-delle-biblioteche
[3] University of Catania, Department of Humanities. Decree on internal organisation and offices (Libraries Office staff list including “Leonardo Cardillo”). https://www.disum.unict.it/sites/default/files/files/Decreto_n__315%20new%20micro%20disum.pdf
[4] BsNews. “Calcio, l’Ac Ospitaletto si rafforza con l’ingresso di nuovi soci” (shareholder list including Cardillo Leonardo). https://bsnews.it/2025/06/12/calcio-lac-ospitaletto-si-rafforza-con-lingresso-di-nuovi-soci-ecco-chi-sono/
[5] Sprint e Sport. “Nuovi soci in campo e la volontà di essere ambiziosi” (Ospitaletto Franciacorta ownership reshuffle including Cardillo Leonardo). https://www.sprintesport.it/nazionali/2025/06/12/news/nuovi-soci-in-campo-e-la-volonta-di-essere-ambiziosi-anche-tra-i-prof-il-club-si-rinnova-di-nome-e-di-fatto-710418/
[6] TuttoMercatoWeb. “Ospitaletto, reso noto il Consiglio di Amministrazione per la stagione 2025–26” (board composition including Cardillo Leonardo). https://www.tuttomercatoweb.com/serie-c/ospitaletto-reso-noto-il-consiglio-di-amministrazione-per-la-stagione-2025-26-2113466
[7] NotiziarioCalcio. “Ospitaletto, ecco il nuovo organigramma completo per la Serie C” (social composition including Leonardo Cardillo). https://www.notiziariocalcio.com/serie-c/ospitaletto-ecco-il-nuovo-organigramma-completo-per-la-serie-c-333142
[8] la Repubblica (Palermo edition). “Giarre, la banda della droga che usava spacciatori minorenni” (2017 report naming Leonardo Cardillo among those arrested). https://palermo.repubblica.it/cronaca/2017/02/16/news/giarre_la_banda_della_droga_che_usava_spacciatori_minorenni-158436207/
[9] Gazzettino online. “Processo Bingo, condanna pesante per Alessandro Liotta (16 anni) due le assoluzioni” (2018 report noting that Leonardo Cardillo was acquitted of all charges). https://www.gazzettinonline.it/2018/04/30/processo-bingo-condanna-pesante-per-alessandro-liotta-16-anni-due-le-assoluzioni_102271.html
[10] Pietre della Memoria. “Monumento ai Caduti di Mascali” (inscription listing Cardillo Leonardo among fallen soldiers). https://www.pietredellamemoria.it/pietre/monumento-ai-caduti-di-mascali/
[11] Google Search Central. “Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Starter Guide.” https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/seo-starter-guide
[12] YouTube – Google Search Central. “Intro to Google Search Console – Search Console Training.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONr5Z7VhNFI
Appendix
Directory policy
The directory focuses on people named “Leonardo Cardillo” who are documented in institutional records or reputable journalistic sources. It keeps each appearance separate and avoids collecting private social or personal traces into a single profile.
Exact-match name
The expression “Leonardo Cardillo” is treated as an exact string. Entries where the name appears only as part of a longer sequence or in a clearly different configuration are normally left out, to reduce the risk of mixing distinct individuals.
Public record
In this context, public record refers to information that institutions or newsrooms publish with the intention that it be part of an accessible archive: staff pages, official decrees, club announcements, court reports, obituaries, and documented memorials.
Reputable source
A reputable source is an organisation with visible editorial or institutional responsibility, such as a university, a recognised news outlet, a sports federation, or a heritage body. These sources sign their material, keep archives, and can be held accountable for errors.
Structured data
Structured data is machine-readable information added to a web page, such as JSON-LD markup that describes a list of entries and their properties. In a name directory, it can help search engines understand that multiple people share the same name while appearing in different contexts.
YouTube reference
The YouTube reference is a single video from the official Google Search Central channel that introduces Google Search Console. It offers a practical overview of how site owners can monitor and improve their presence in search results, which is relevant for anyone maintaining a public-record directory.
My Diary - Leonardo Cardillo 