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The Invention of Sicily

Author : Jamie Mackay
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1786637766
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book The Invention of Sicily written by Jamie Mackay and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you’re vacationing in Italy or simply an armchair traveler, this guide to the Mediterranean island of Sicily is a dazzling introduction to the region’s rich 3,000-year history and culture. A rich and fascinating cultural history of the Mediterranean’s enigmatic heart Sicily is at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, and for over 2000 years has been the gateway between Europe, Africa and the East. It has long been seen as the frontier between Western Civilization and the rest, but never definitively part of either. Despite being conquered by empires—Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Normans, Hapsburg Spain—it remains uniquely apart. The island’s story maps a mosaic that mixes the story of myth and wars, maritime empires and reckless crusades, and a people who refuse to be ruled. In this riveting, rich history Jamie Mackay peels away the layers of this most mysterious of islands. This story finds its origins in ancient myth but has been reinventing itself across centuries: in conquest and resistance. Inseparable from these political and social developments are the artefacts of the nation’s cultural patrimony—ancient amphitheaters, Arab gardens, Baroque Cathedrals, as well as great literature such as Giuseppe di Lampedusa’s masterpiece The Leopard, and the novels and plays of Luigi Pirandello. In its modern era, Sicily has been the site of revolution, Cosa Nostra and, in the twenty-first century, the epicenter of the refugee crisis.

Sicily, It's Not Quite Tuscany

Author : Shamus Sillar
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1742693865
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Sicily, It's Not Quite Tuscany written by Shamus Sillar and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2012 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with history, culture, misadventure, and a little Mafioso action, the story of a newly married couple and the year they spent in Sicily Gill and I had dreamt of living in Italy for as long as we'd been together. This is the story of an Aussie couple who sought a Mediterranean Sea change only to find themselves in the sprawling Sicilian city of Catania—the "anti-Tuscany" of Italy. There, any romantic visions they'd had of restoring a villa or stamping their entwined feet in vats of Chianti grapes disappeared faster than the chief witness in a Cosa Nostra trial. Shamus and Gill's tiny apartment in Catania was located in a grim neighborhood opposite a triple-X cinema and a shop selling coffins, nearby Mount Etna erupted soon after their arrival, a mystery ailment left Shamus in a neck brace, they crashed a Vespa, and they had regular dealings with at least one Mafioso. This, then, is an Italian sea change with grit. But it's also a story of optimism, endurance, and acceptance; an exploration of the minutiae of Sicilian culture, history, food, and religion; and an example of how to find beauty—and humor—in the most unexpected of places.

The Journeying Moon

Author : Ernle Bradford
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497617332
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book The Journeying Moon written by Ernle Bradford and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of life as an adventurer and sailor in the Mediterranean, by the noted naval historian. Ernle Bradford spent his twenty-first birthday in Egypt, serving in the Royal Navy during World War II. It was there that he came across the profoundly affecting words of Anton Chekhov: “Life does not come again; if you have not lived during the days that were given to you, once only, then write it down as lost.” After the war, Bradford married and settled in London, but the mandate of those words inspired him and his wife to quit their jobs, sell their home, and sail to France in their small ship Mother Goose. The Journeying Moon chronicles their adventures as they travel through Europe and the Mediterranean. From the people of Malta who believed Bradford was a spy from MI5, to his interactions with the Sicilian Mafia, Bradford tells the charming and vivid tale of his days as a true adventurer.

Remembering Peasants

Author : Patrick Joyce
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1668031108
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Remembering Peasants written by Patrick Joyce and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark new history of the peasant experience, exploring a now neglected way of life that once encompassed most of humanity but is vanishing in our time. “What the skeleton is to anatomy, the peasant is to history, its essential hidden support.” For over the past century and a half, and still more rapidly in the last seventy years, the world has become increasingly urban, and the peasant way of life—the dominant way of life for humanity since agriculture began well over 6,000 years ago—is disappearing. In this new history of peasantry, social historian Patrick Joyce aims to tell the story of this lost world and its people, and how we can commemorate their way of life. In one sense, this is a global history, ambitious in scope, taking us from the urbanization of the early 19th century to the present day. But more specifically, Joyce’s focus is the demise of the European peasantry and of their rites, traditions, and beliefs. Alongside this he brings in stories of individuals as well as places, including his own family, and looks at how peasants and their ways of life have been memorialized in photographs, literature, and in museums. Joyce explores a people whose voice is vastly underrepresented in human history and is usually mediated through others. And now peasants are vanishing in one of the greatest historical transformations of our time. Written with the skill and authority of a great historian, Remembering Peasants is a landmark work, a richly complex and passionate history written with exquisite care. It is also deeply resonant, as Joyce shines a light on people whose knowledge of the land is being irretrievably lost during our critical time of climate crisis and the rise of industrial agriculture. Enlightening, timely, and vitally important, this book commemorates an extraordinary culture whose impact on history—and the future—remains profoundly relevant.

The Proud Prince

Author : Justin H. McCarthy
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Proud Prince written by Justin H. McCarthy and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Proud Prince" by Justin H. McCarthy. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Poems for the Millennium, Volume Four

Author : Jerome Rothenberg
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520273850
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Poems for the Millennium, Volume Four written by Jerome Rothenberg and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Global anthology of twentieth-century poetry"--Back cover.

Milton's Minor Poems

Author : J. B. Leishman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429619391
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Milton's Minor Poems written by J. B. Leishman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1969. These nine lectures written by the distinguished scholar J. B. Leishman examines the various themes, context and structure of Milton’s poetry, with particular focus on L’Allegro, Il Penseroso and Lycidas. This title will be of great interest to students of John Milton and English Literature.

Remembering Yesterday

Author : Paul DiRenzo
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1665732539
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (657 download)

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Download or read book Remembering Yesterday written by Paul DiRenzo and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-29 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America, still today, for many people throughout the world remains an attraction; instead, for many others, they see America as a beacon of hope from political and religious oppressions to the needs to overcome hunger from their countries poor economic conditions. Nevertheless, "Remembering Yesterday," talks about a timid little immigrant boy named Gregorio; his wonderful protective mother; his working, dedicated, and honest father, who was forced to immigrate to six different countries before coming to America, looking for work so his family could survive; and his two siblings: Andrea, the daring one; and Matteo, the thick headed one. The book opens up with the main character Gregorio Di Nardo as an adult teaching English as a Second Language at a local Community College, to immigrant adult students. the author then moves to narrate more about the main character as a little boy growing up in his little village. The story continues with some surprising and unexpected information: Gregorio and his family would be leaving their little town for America. The news upsets the little boy for abandoning his present existence, his friends, the piazza, and his small house; but his mother and siblings however, were happy as they could be to leave the poor conditions behind and embrace new ones knowing they were starting from nothing. The narration picks up with a long dangerous journey to America: first on a train, then on transatlantic boat named "Vulcania", and finally growing up to adulthood in the city of Newark with no language, no friends, no one to cling to except his parents and two siblings. The family settles in the city of Newark, where they lived and experienced Newark reality at its best and safest period; as well as its downfall. It is here where they first experienced one of the many gloomy embarrassments, despondent, sour moments of racism and hardships. The desperate souls came with nothing except their clothes, a strong will to work and produce; and to overcome the hunger they left behind due to poor economic conditions they were subjected to.

Remembering Iñigo

Author : Luís Gonçalves da Câmara
Publisher : Gracewing Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780852445129
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (451 download)

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Download or read book Remembering Iñigo written by Luís Gonçalves da Câmara and published by Gracewing Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remembering Inigo gives us an intimate picture of Saint Ignatius of Loyola as a person and as a religious superior. Luis Goncalves da Camara was the Jesuit whom Ignatius chose to record his personal recollections of his own religious experiences and development in a document that later came to be known as Ignatius's Autobiography. Da Camara was also convinced however, that, if a religious order was to maintain its pristine spirit and purpose, it would do so especially through imitation of its founder. So he set out to get to know, through direct experience, Ignatius's particular and special characteristics. Living for a time (1553-1555) with St Ignatius in the Jesuit headquarters in Rome, da Camara, for a period of seven months in 1555, recorded concrete examples of how Ignatius actually behaved: how he treated those at varying stags of Jesuit life, those in consolation and those in desolation, those tempted, those in need of encouragement or of a reprimand. More than this, da Camara relates how Ignatius prayed and celebrated Mass, how he put questions and answered them, what topics he liked or disliked in conversation, how he ate, how he dressed - in a word, everything that could be found out about him from personal observation. Then, almost twenty years later, he added a commentary to his original notes. Da Camara had in mind in-house audiences of fellow Jesuits, men whom he hoped to encourage by recalling the Inigo he so admired. But the picture of Ignatius which he provided is astonishing even to Jesuits. To say that da Camara's work makes it clear that Ignatius had a fallible humn side is to phrase the matter very softly indeed. In fact, Roman authorities for long were uncertain whether to allow publication of the work; indeed, the first edition of it appeared only in 1904. Nonetheless, it provides us with a valuable insight into a man who towered into sanctity and vision among his contemporaries and still does today.

Timoleon

Author : James Rhoades
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Timoleon written by James Rhoades and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Poems for the Millennium, Volume Four

Author : Pierre Joris
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520953797
Total Pages : 793 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Poems for the Millennium, Volume Four written by Pierre Joris and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fourth volume of the landmark Poems for the Millennium series, Pierre Joris and Habib Tengour present a comprehensive anthology of the written and oral literatures of the Maghreb, the region of North Africa that spans the modern nation states of Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and Mauritania, and including a section on the influential Arabo-Berber and Jewish literary culture of Al-Andalus, which flourished in Spain between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. Beginning with the earliest pictograms and rock drawings and ending with the work of the current generation of post-independence and diasporic writers, this volume takes in a range of cultures and voices, including Berber, Phoenician, Jewish, Roman, Vandal, Arab, Ottoman, and French. Though concentrating on oral and written poetry and narratives, the book also draws on historical and geographical treatises, philosophical and esoteric traditions, song lyrics, and current prose experiments. These selections are arranged in five chronological "diwans" or chapters, which are interrupted by a series of "books" that supply extra detail, giving context or covering specific cultural areas in concentrated fashion. The selections are contextualized by a general introduction that situates the importance of this little-known culture area and individual commentaries for nearly each author.

Sicilian Palimpsest

Author : Ennio I. Rao
Publisher : Legas Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sicilian Palimpsest written by Ennio I. Rao and published by Legas Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Proud Prince

Author : Justin Huntly McCarthy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Proud Prince written by Justin Huntly McCarthy and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Aerial Interdiction

Author : Eduard Maximilian Mark
Publisher : Air Force History & Museums Program
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Aerial Interdiction written by Eduard Maximilian Mark and published by Air Force History & Museums Program. This book was released on 1994 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published by Superintendent of Documents, US Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402-9328 for the Pacific Air Forces Office of History, Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Life and Letters of Sir James Graham

Author : Charles Stuart Parker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Life and Letters of Sir James Graham written by Charles Stuart Parker and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Works and Life: Miscellaneous poems, and criticisms of Theocritus, etc. 1876

Author : Walter Savage Landor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Works and Life: Miscellaneous poems, and criticisms of Theocritus, etc. 1876 written by Walter Savage Landor and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Excellent Cadavers

Author : Alexander Stille
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679768637
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book Excellent Cadavers written by Alexander Stille and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1996-08-06 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1992 Italy was convulsed by two brazen Mafia assassinations of high-ranking officials. The latest "excellent cadavers" were Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, the Sicilian magistrates who had been the Cosa Nostra's most implacable enemies. Yet in the aftermath of the murders, hundreds of "men of honor" were arrested and the government that ad protected them for nearly half a century was at last driven from office. This is the story that Stille tells with such insight and immediacy in Excellent Cadavers. Combining a profound understanding of his doomed heroes with and unprecedented look into the Mafia's stringent codes and murderous rivalries, he gives us a book that has the power of a great work of history and the suspense of a true thriller. "Riveting...a well-paced and highly informative account stocked with well-drawn characters."--Philadelphia Inquirer "Masterful...[Stille] delivers a stiletto-sharp portrait of the bloodthirsty Sicilian mafia."--Business Week