In the novel a nickname of Vito Corleone is Il Patino...
What is that? I know that Il Padrino means the Godfather but i've never heard of il Patino...
Since my Italian (and sicilian) isn't very good I asked my father (who is a Sicilian)...He never heard of the word Patino..Neither does my uncle (who is also Sicilian)....

So, does anybody knows what it is? Maybe a western-sicilian dialect or something (because my family is from eastern-sicily)....