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Author : Giovanna Summerfield
Publisher : Legas / Gaetano Cipolla
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Remembering Sicily written by Giovanna Summerfield and published by Legas / Gaetano Cipolla. This book was released on 2009 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carmelo Sortino
Publisher : Keith Alexander Gallery
ISBN 13 : 9781895183115
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (831 download)
Download or read book Remembering Sicily written by Carmelo Sortino and published by Keith Alexander Gallery. This book was released on 1997 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gaetano Paxia
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN 13 : 1950860272
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (58 download)
Download or read book Sancalo? written by Gaetano Paxia and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2019-08-28 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a remote, poverty-stricken mountain village of Sicily, a baby boy awakens to life. Today that child is an old man. His memories crop up, stone hard and fleeting as birds: of faces, of hunger and beauty, love and wounding, song and weeping, war and peace. In Sancalò, his memoirs emerge in the form of 59 brief chapters. His intimate personal experiences reflect and shed light on his surroundings. He remembers post-War Sicily, the complicated legacy of fascism, centuries-long injustices and prejudices, and the spiritual depth and memorable quirks of simple people. Says the author, “I felt a driving need to reconnect to my past while trying to recreate a part of its beauty.” Some names have been changed. His other books are The Devil’s Scourge. Exorcism in Renaissance Italy (Red Wheel/Weiser, 2002) and Poesie/Poems (AVEditoria, 2018). He is currently completing a study dealing with Jews in Renaissance Italy.
Author : Giuseppe Quatriglio
Publisher : Legas / Gaetano Cipolla
ISBN 13 : 1881901785
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (819 download)
Download or read book Sicily written by Giuseppe Quatriglio and published by Legas / Gaetano Cipolla. This book was released on 2011 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sarah Parke Morrison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sicily written by Sarah Parke Morrison and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karla Mallette
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812204794
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book The Kingdom of Sicily, 1100-1250 written by Karla Mallette and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Muslim invaders conquered Sicily in the ninth century, they took control of a weakened Greek state in cultural decadence. When, two centuries later, the Normans seized control of the island, they found a Muslim state just entering its cultural prime. Rather than replace the practices and idioms of the vanquished people with their own, the Normans in Sicily adopted and adapted the Greco-Arabic culture that had developed on the island. Yet less than a hundred years later, the cultural and linguistic mix had been reduced, a Romance tradition had come to dominate, and Sicilian poets composed the first body of love lyrics in an Italianate vernacular. Karla Mallette has written the first literary history of the Kingdom of Sicily in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Where other scholars have separated out the island's literature along linguistic grounds, Mallette surveys the literary production in Arabic, Latin, Greek, and Romance dialects, in addition to the architectural remains, numismatic inscriptions, and diplomatic records, to argue for a multilingual, multicultural, and coherent literary tradition. Drawing on postcolonial theory to consider institutional and intellectual power, the exchange of knowledge across cultural boundaries, and the containment and celebration of the other that accompanies cultural transition, the book includes an extensive selection of poems and documents translated from the Arabic, Latin, Old French, and Italian. The Kingdom of Sicily, 1100-1250 opens up new venues for understanding the complexity of a place and culture at the crossroads of East and West, Islam and Christianity, tradition and innovation.
Author : Jamie Mackay
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1786637731
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)
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.
Author : Antonio Badalamenti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780533139828
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)
Download or read book Memories of My Life in Sicily written by Antonio Badalamenti and published by . This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mrs. Alec Tweedie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Sunny Sicily written by Mrs. Alec Tweedie and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jamie Mackay
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1786637766
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)
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.
Author : Will Seymour Monroe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Sicily, the Garden of the Mediterranean written by Will Seymour Monroe and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daphne Phelps
Publisher : Virago Press
ISBN 13 : 9781860496486
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (964 download)
Download or read book A House in Sicily written by Daphne Phelps and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 2000-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Near Mount Etna in Sicily lies Casa Cuseni, a beautiful house built in golden stone - and the home which Daphne Phelps was astonished to find she had inherited in 1947. At the age of 34, war-weary from working as a psychiatric social worker, with barely any Italian, and precious little money, she plunged into a fascinating Sicilian world. Every imaginable problem had to be overcome, not only financial difficulties but local authorities and a house staff who initially felt no loyalty to the new Signorina but who gradually accepted her as a respected member of their small community. To help make ends meet, for many years she ran Casa Cuseni as a pensione and to her doors came Roald Dahl, Tennessee Williams, Bertrand Russell and Henry Faulkner. But just as important to her life and her story are the Sicilians with whom she shared the love and care of Casa Cuseni: Don Ciccio the local mafia leader, Vincenzio, general manservant who recited while he served the meals, Beppe, a Don Juan who scented his eyebrows and his moustache to attract the local girls; and above all the steadfast cook and housekeeper who lives with Daphne still and to whom this book is dedicated.
Author : Liesbeth Korthals Altes
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042012608
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (126 download)
Download or read book The New Georgics written by Liesbeth Korthals Altes and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2002 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human condition in rural, provincial locations is once again gaining status as a subject of European 'high fiction', after several decades in which it was dismissed on aesthetic and ideological grounds. This volume is one of the first attempts to investigate perspectives on local cultures, values and languages both systematically and in a European context. It does so by examining the works of a variety of authors, including Hugo Claus, Llamazares, Bergounioux and Millet, Buffalino and Consolo, and also several Soviet authors, who paint a grim picture of a collectivized - and thus ossified - rurality. How do these themes relate to the ongoing trend of globalization? How do these works, which are often experimental, connect - in their form, topics, language and ideological subtext - to the traditional rural or regional genres? Far from naively celebrating a lost Eden, most of these 'new Georgics' reflect critically on the tensions in contemporary, peripheral, rural or regional cultures, to the point of parodying the traditional topoi and genres. This book is of interest to those wishing to reflect on the dynamics and conflicts in contemporary European rural culture.
Author : Ernle Bradford
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497617332
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)
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.
Author : Carmine Rapisarda
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1291166726
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Poems on Sicily written by Carmine Rapisarda and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the book there is a selection of poems about Sicily by anglophone writers. Among the most well knownn we can list Wilde, D.H. Lawrence, Dickinson, Shelley. They relate some interesting aspects of Sicily even if some of them didn't visit the island. There are poems about the myths of Arethusa and Enceladus, the volcano Etna with its destructive magma, the sicilian landscape with its flowers and trees, important Sicilian towns like Catania with its monks, Taormina that smells of almond blossom, Syracuse with its greek history and Palermo with its arab dome. The reader will be transported to this secret land and will discover the poetic meaning of this mysterious island that only poets can explain
Author : William Henry Bartlett
Publisher : London : Arthur Hall, Virtue, & Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Pictures from Sicily written by William Henry Bartlett and published by London : Arthur Hall, Virtue, & Company. This book was released on 1853 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sicily, the New Winter Resort written by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
