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Author : Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Sicily (Italy)
ISBN : PRNC:32101066155258
Author : Douglas Sladen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1017333313
Author : Douglas Sladen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0849550009
Author : Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen
Publisher : Arkose Press
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1344824625
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0282439250
Excerpt from Sicily, the New Winter Resort: An Encyclopaedia of Sicily About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Andrew Edwards,Suzanne Edwards
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780857734877
Rising up from the heart of the Mediterranean, Sicily has a rich and ancient history spanning over 2,000 years. A bounty prized by invaders from the Greeks, Romans and Vandals to the Byzantines, Arabs and Normans, Sicily's violently beautiful landscapes are haunted by a vibrant mix of cultures and her soil has always been fertile ground for the literary and artistic imagination. This compelling guide uncovers the island's multi-faceted personality through those literary figures who have managed to get under her skin - from Pindar, Cicero and Aeschylus to Shakespeare and Cervantes; DH Lawrence, Coleridge and Oscar Wilde to Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Ezra Pound and Lawrence Durrell; as well as local writers who have defined the modern Italian novel - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa and Leonardo Sciascia. Through their words and lives we witness the beauty, pain and power of the Sicilian cultural landscape and discover how the potent mix of influences on the island's society has been preserved forever in literature.
Author : Jeremy Dummett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780755601912
A guide to the fascinating and diverse history and culture of Sicily. The book includes key events, places and artists highlighted in wide-ranging articles presented in four parts: History, Cities, Ancient Sites and Artists. A rich tapestry emerges of an island that has experienced dramatic changes of fortune while becoming a melting-pot of cultural influences from the eastern Mediterranean, North Africa and mainland Italy. It also includes commentary on the monuments and works of art to be seen today, linking Sicily past and present. Follow the stories of Dionysius' castle, the foundation of the cathedral at Monreale, the Sicilian poets who invented the sonnet and the British merchants who made Marsala wine an international brand. Tour the big cities of Catania and Messina, the resorts of Taormina and Cefalù, and the baroque hilltowns of south-eastern Sicily. Explore the ancient sites, among them Segesta, Selinunte and Agrigento. Witness the originality of the island's culture through the profiles of eight artists, sculptors and architects from the Renaissance to the twentieth century including Antonello da Messina, Giacomo Serpotta and Renato Guttuso, as well as Caravaggio, who left some of his last masterpieces on the island. This book complements the author's previous work on Syracuse and Palermo, filling in gaps in the island's story, to form a comprehensive trilogy on Sicily.
Author : Donna R. Gabaccia
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1438403542
From Sicily to Elizabeth Street analyzes the relationship of environment to social behavior. It revises our understanding of the Italian-American family and challenges existing notions of the Italian immigrant experience by comparing everyday family and social life in the agrotowns of Sicily to life in a tenement neighborhood on New York's Lower East Side at the turn of the century. Moving historical understanding beyond such labels as "uprooted" and "huddled masses," the book depicts the immigrant experience from the perspective of the immigrants themselves. It begins with a uniquely detailed description of the Sicilian backgrounds and moves on to recreate Elizabeth Street in lower Manhattan, a neighborhood inhabited by some 8,200 Italians. The author shows how the tightly knit conjugal family became less important in New York than in Sicily, while a wider association of kin groups became crucial to community life. Immigrants, who were mostly young people, began to rely more on their related peers for jobs and social activities and less on parents who remained behind. Interpreting their lives in America, immigrants abandoned some Sicilian ideals, while other customs, though Sicilian in origin, assumed new and distinctive forms as this first generation initiated the process of becoming Italian-American.
Author : Eustace Alfred Reynolds-Ball
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Mediterranean Region
ISBN : UOM:39015063624764
Author : Jeremy Dummett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,8 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 : Eustace Alfred Reynolds-Ball
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Health resorts
ISBN : CORNELL:31924023264223
Author : Mary Taylor Simeti
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-19
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781908117915
The definitive guide to Sicilian cooking filled with authentic, hard-to-find recipes from this sun-drenched island. Gleaned from the author’s friends, family, and acquaintances on the island of Sicily, Sicilian Food is a delicious journey through the food, traditions, and recipes of this corner of the world. Mary Taylor Simeti, an American who married a Sicilian, set out to discover the food of her husband firsthand. She haunted former convents and palaces where Palermo’s libraries have been maintained. She tested each ancient recipe herself and updated the methods, providing clear and easy-to-follow directions. The book reflects the unique culture of Sicily, both the external influences of a series of conquerors and the domestic changes brought about by peasant, clergy, and aristocrat alike. There are recipes using the vegetable abundance of the Sicilian landscape, recipes for ice cream or granita, and recipes with names like Virgins’ Breasts and Chancellor’s Buttocks. Rich with history, the book draws from Sicilian archives and museums and quotes from Homer, Plato, Apicius, Lampedusa, and Pirandello—offering not only a culinary adventure but also an experience that feels like traveling to Sicily.
Author : Giorgia Alù
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 3039110535
This book offers a stimulating analysis of three non-canonical texts in different genres written by British women who lived in Sicily in the second half of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. These texts cover a series of crucial political events as well as social and cultural changes which affected the history of Sicily during the period in question, all seen through the direct and indirect experiences of the authors. The book offers a historical perspective on the late-Victorian and Edwardian representations of post-Unification Italy. At the same time the author challenges current critical literature on travel writing which tends to analyse travel texts without making substantial distinction between works written during a brief visit to a foreign country and those produced during a long-term or permanent residence. The book adopts an interdisciplinary, comparative approach. The three texts are studied by looking at patterns of connection in other written and visual works produced during, or after, an experience in Italy. By drawing on theories of travel writing, genre and gender, along with visual and cultural studies, the author aims to verify how the three texts respond to being analysed as a distinct group, and hence define the specific roles and functions of expatriate women's writing.
Author : Lucy Riall
Publisher : Oxford University Press (UK)
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199646494
Explores the riot in the Sicilian town of Bronte, on the slopes of Mount Etna and under the domination of British landowners and links this event to larger themes of poverty, injustice, mismanagement, and Britain's policy towards Italy in the 19th century.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1516 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Medicine
ISBN : HARVARD:32044103079398
