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Author : Francesco Rocco Ruggeri
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781387780075
Author : Francesco Rocco Ruggeri
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781387977895
Author : Peter Robb
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-05
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781466861299
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year From the author of M and A Death in Brazil comes Midnight in Sicily. South of mainland Italy lies the island of Sicily, home to an ancient culture that--with its stark landscapes, glorious coastlines, and extraordinary treasure troves of art and archeology--has seduced travelers for centuries. But at the heart of the island's rare beauty is a network of violence and corruption that reaches into every corner of Sicilian life: Cosa Nostra, the Mafia. Peter Robb lived in southern Italy for over fourteen years and recounts its sensuous pleasures, its literature, politics, art, and crimes.
Author : John Julius Norwich
Publisher : Random House
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812995190
Critically acclaimed author John Julius Norwich weaves the turbulent story of Sicily into a spellbinding narrative that places the island at the crossroads of world history. “Sicily,” said Goethe, “is the key to everything.” It is the largest island in the Mediterranean, the stepping-stone between Europe and Africa, the link between the Latin West and the Greek East. Sicily’s strategic location has tempted Roman emperors, French princes, and Spanish kings. The subsequent struggles to conquer and keep it have played crucial roles in the rise and fall of the world’s most powerful dynasties. Yet Sicily has often been little more than a footnote in books about other empires. John Julius Norwich’s engrossing narrative is the first to knit together all of the colorful strands of Sicilian history into a single comprehensive study. Here is a vivid, erudite, page-turning chronicle of an island and the remarkable kings, queens, and tyrants who fought to rule it. From its beginnings as a Greek city-state to its emergence as a multicultural trading hub during the Crusades, from the rebellion against Italian unification to the rise of the Mafia, the story of Sicily is rich with extraordinary moments and dramatic characters. Writing with his customary deftness and humor, Norwich outlines the surprising influence Sicily has had on world history—the Romans’ fascination with Greek civilization dates back to their sack of Sicily—and tells the story of one of the world’s most kaleidoscopic cultures in a galvanizing, contemporary way. This volume has been a long time coming—Norwich began to explore Sicily’s colorful history during his first visit to the island in the early 1960s. The dean of popular historians leads his readers through the millennia with the steady narrative hand of a master teacher or the world’s most learned tour guide. Like the island itself, Sicily is a book brimming with bold flavors that begs to be revisited again and again. Praise for Sicily “Suavely readable . . . The very model of a popular historian, [Norwich] writes to give pleasure to the common reader. And what pleasure it is.”—The Wall Street Journal “Entertaining on every page . . . There is something ancient and sorrowful in Sicily, ‘some dark, brooding quality,’ just as captivating as its spellbinding history or its beautiful and varied landscapes, from beaches to lemon groves, pine forests to volcanoes. . . . The most amiable and freewheeling of guides, Norwich will always find time for the amusing anecdote.”—The Sunday Times “Utterly engrossing . . . written with passion about the art and architecture of this magical island, filled with gossipy tidbits and sweeping historical theories.”—The Daily Beast “Dazzling . . . Norwich is an elegantly graceful and entertaining storyteller.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch “Charming . . . richly nuanced history relayed with enormous fondness.”—Kirkus Reviews “A brisk and always-lively tour.”—Open Letters Monthly “Norwich is deeply in love with Sicily. [His] boundless affection has inspired a determined effort to understand its painful past. The result is impressionistic, as love often is.”—The Times “Norwich sketches personalities vividly. . . . He does the island and the reader a generous service in providing such an amiable introduction.”—The Sunday Telegraph “Norwich tells [Sicily’s] long, sad but fascinating story with sympathy and brio.”—Literary Review
Author : Joseph Farrell
Publisher : Interlink Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781623710507
“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.
Author : Moses I. Finley,Denis Mack Smith,Christopher Duggan
Publisher : London : Chatto & Windus
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040472990
Author : Sandra Benjamin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Sicily (Italy)
ISBN : 1586421018
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1415325394
Author : Jeremy Dummett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781786739742
Palermo - the capital of Sicily - is a destination with a difference. The city is a treasure trove of original monuments and works of art, combined with architecture of grand proportions. Yet it also has a grittier side, shown by the continuing influence of the mafia. Jeremy Dummett here provides a concise overview of Palermo's eventful history, together with a survey of its most important monuments and sites. He looks at the influences of the city's various ancient rulers - the Phoenicians, Romans, Arabs and Normans - as well as its more recent incarnation as part of the Italian state. In addition to being an essential companion for visitors to Palermo, this book can be equally enjoyed as a standalone history of the city and its place at the heart of Sicily.
Author : Marshall W. Baldwin,Kenneth Meyer Setton
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781512818642
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Author : IBP, Inc.
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781433077623
Sure, everyone gets sick sometimes, but do you realize that plenty of those folks also die slow, unpleasant deaths from diseases that stumped even the experts at top-notch (still privately run) hospitals? That’s right: There are plenty of illnesses that even physicians have never heard about. Nodding Disease, Alice in Wonderland Syndrome, and Cutaneous Horn (yes, you grow a horn) are all featured here in pithy, energetic entries. You won’t have to worry about socialized medicine if you have this book—even if your doc could see you within a month, you might die due to his ignorance. Lucky for you and your loved ones, Ian Landau (who has no medical training but is a hell of a researcher) includes: Descriptions of each disease Background and history How to diagnose yourself and others Suggested treatments Prevention methods The book is not for the faint of heart, as it probably could cause cardiac arrest. (And you ain’t coming back from that without Ian’s help.)
Author : IBP USA
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781438774664
Italy Country Study Guide - Strategic Information and Developments Volume 1 Strategic Information and Developments
Author : IBP USA
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781438767840
Italy Investment and Business Guide - Strategic and Practical Information
Author : IBP USA
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007-02-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781433026096
Italy Mineral & Mining Sector Investment and Business Guide - Strategic and Practical Information
Author : Sally Veillette
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1976547083
A beautiful book for anyone interested in learning about and enjoying the history of Sicily.Sicily's rich history comes alive in this illustrated guide, sponsored by the "Associazione Hands-On Sicily," written for people who want to learn more about the largest island in the Mediterranean. Learn about the thirteen cultures who have dominated Sicily over its 5,000-year history. Relive the island's Golden Ages and tumultuous periods. Marvel at its innovations. Cry at its defeats. See which leaders were far ahead of their time--uniting the diverse island populations. Discover which invaders brought new ingredients to Sicilian cuisine. Be surprised to learn that pasta was originally a dish for the rich! Find out why tomatoes were once considered poisonous... and how Italians were the first to enjoy cooking with them. Learn when the first pizza was made (and for whom). Sicily is an amazing island with a history that is guaranteed to fascinate people of all ages. :-)