Sicily
A Cultural History
2nd Edition
Published on 19. June 2014
256 pages
978-1-62371-050-7 (ISBN)
Description
"Reading these guides is the next best thing to actually going there with them in hand."
?Foreword Magazine
AN ENGAGING INTRODUCTION TO A CULTURAL GIANT Long before it became an Italian offshore island, Sicily was the land in the center of the Mediterranean where the great civilizations of Europe and Northern Africa met. Sicily today is familiar and unfamiliar, modernized and unchanging. Visitors will find in an out-of-the-way town an Aragonese castle, will stumble across a Norman church by the side of a lesser travelled road, will see red Muslim-styles domes over a Christian shrine, will find a Baroque church of breathtaking beauty in a village, will catch a glimpse from the motorway of a solitary Greek temple on the horizon and will happen on a the celebrations of the patron saint of a run-down district of a city, and will stop and wonder. There is more to Sicily than the Godfather and the mafia.
?Foreword Magazine
AN ENGAGING INTRODUCTION TO A CULTURAL GIANT Long before it became an Italian offshore island, Sicily was the land in the center of the Mediterranean where the great civilizations of Europe and Northern Africa met. Sicily today is familiar and unfamiliar, modernized and unchanging. Visitors will find in an out-of-the-way town an Aragonese castle, will stumble across a Norman church by the side of a lesser travelled road, will see red Muslim-styles domes over a Christian shrine, will find a Baroque church of breathtaking beauty in a village, will catch a glimpse from the motorway of a solitary Greek temple on the horizon and will happen on a the celebrations of the patron saint of a run-down district of a city, and will stop and wonder. There is more to Sicily than the Godfather and the mafia.
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Series
Edition
2nd Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Interlink Publishing Group, Inc
File size
3,44 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-62371-050-7 (9781623710507)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Person
Joseph Farrell is Professor of Italian at the University of Strathclyde. He is author of a biography of Dario Fo and has translated several Italian playwrights in addition to various novels.
Content
- Intro
- Also in the Series
- Silcy
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedicate
- Thought
- Acknowledgement
- THE CULTURES OF SICILY
- WOUNDED BY HISTORY
- MORALS AND MANNERS
- THE IMAGINED ISLAND
- MEN OF HONOR
- ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES
- THE LANDING STAGE
- SOUTHWARDS TO ETNA
- UNLIKELY CONNECTIONS
- THE SECOND CITY
- GODDESSES AND MADONNAS
- THE SICILY THE GREEKS LEFT
- THE GLORY OF THE BAROQUE
- THE GREAT TEMPLES
- PHOENICIANS, SARACENS, AND YORKSHIREMEN
- THE CAPITAL CITY
- OUT OF PALERMO
- THE AEOLIAN ISLANDS
- JOURNEY'S END
- Further Reading
