The Sicilian Triangle

Author : John A. Rallo
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781465326669

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The Sicilian Triangle by John A. Rallo Pdf

The Sicilian Triangle is the labor of love of an octogenarian, who reminisces over his native land—that oft-maligned “Island of the Sun.” He is captivated by the charm of its cities, the warmth of its people and the numerous archaeological wonders. The Sicilian Triangle – enriched by photographs – highlights the contributions made by the different civilizations to the island over the centuries: Greek, Carthaginian, Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Spanish, French and other foreign invaders. “The land was occupied,” the author states, “but not the unconquerable spirit of its people, who learned to endure, sustained through the centuries by cultures that have taught them how to survive through pain, patience and suffering.

Author : Natale Barca
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526767493

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Rome's Sicilian Slave Wars by Natale Barca Pdf

In 136 BC, in Sicily (which was then a Roman province), some four hundred slaves of Syrian origin rebelled against their masters and seized the city of Henna with much bloodshed. Their leader, a fortune-teller named Eunus, was declared king (taking the Syrian royal name Antiochus), and tens of thousands of runaway slaves as well as poor native Sicilians soon flocked to join his fledgling kingdom. Antiochus’ ambition was to drive the Romans from the whole of Sicily. The Romans responded with characteristic intransigence and relentlessness, leading to years of brutal warfare and suppression. Antiochus’ ‘Kingdom of the Western Syrians’ was extinguished by 132 but his agenda was revived in 105 BC when rebelling slaves proclaimed Salvius as King Tryphon, with similarly bitter and bloody results. Natale Barca narrates and analyses these events in unprecedented detail, with thorough research into the surviving ancient sources. The author also reveals the long-term legacy of the slaves’ defiance, contributing to the crises that led to the seismic Social War and setting a precedent for the more-famous rebellion of Spartacus in 73-71 BC.

Author : Alberto Baracco,Manuela Gieri
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783031135736

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Basilicata and Southern Italy Between Film and Ecology by Alberto Baracco,Manuela Gieri Pdf

This volume offers an open, transdisciplinary living space (also green) through which to explore the different connections between Basilicata and Southern Italy, cinema, and ecology, and thus to reflect on the different forms through which the historical, cultural, and social contexts of Southern Italian regions have been variously identified and represented. In order to explore these connections, the volume embraces a wide range of perspectives that may all be grouped under the key term film ecocriticism, offering the reader a thorough analysis not only of the different ways of representing reality but also of the processes of signification through which reality itself can be understood, rethought, and transformed. This is the general framework within which the authors consider film as a proper, effective medium for ecocritical and ecophilosophical reflections concerning not only Basilicata (to which the greater part of the volume is dedicated) but also Southern Italy and, therefore, its history and its territories, communities, and identities. Furthermore, in an even more general sense, Basilicata and Southern Italy reconnects with the very idea of the South, and of all Souths, to which this volume is dedicated.

Author : JB Zito
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781466929463

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The Sicilian Experience of Mr. Benny by JB Zito Pdf

Salvatore is only eight years old when hes sent to the Sicilian sulfur mines to work off his familys debt with the Mafia in 1888. Though the work is brutal, as he grows older, there is one bright spotthe beautiful Marianna, who also toils at the Miniera Di Zolfo. When they are teenagers, they fall in love and wed. For a time, they gain respite from the hard work and have two children, Samuel and Benedetto. But after three years, Salvatore must return to the mines; his family never sees him again. Marianna does her best to raise the boys without Salvatore, but a peasants life in early twentieth-century Sicily is not easy. The Sicilian Experience of Mr. Benny shares the story of the early years of author J. B. Zitos grandfather, Ben. It provides historic insight into the rough existence the peasants faced, the trials with which common citizens dealt, and the desire of many to immigrate to America for a better life. The first of three volumes, The Sicilian Experience of Mr. Benny narrates the story of one familys early history that originated in Sicily, Italy.

Author : Karla Mallette
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812204797

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The Kingdom of Sicily, 1100-1250 by Karla Mallette Pdf

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 : Julia A. Clancy-Smith
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520274433

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Mediterraneans by Julia A. Clancy-Smith Pdf

'Mediterraneans' offers an account of migration from Southern Europe to North Africa during the 19th century, especially to what became Tunisia.

Author : Jim DeFelice
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781621572978

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Omar Bradley by Jim DeFelice Pdf

The First In-Depth Biography of America’s Last Five-Star General He was known as “the G.I. General”— humble, self-effacing, hard-working, reflecting the small-town virtues of the America whose uniform he wore. But those very virtues have led historians to neglect General Omar Bradley—until now. Bestselling author Jim DeFelice, in this, the first-ever in-depth biography of America’s last five-star general, tells Bradley’s full story, and argues that the neglected G.I. General did more than any other to defeat Hitler in World War II. While General George S. Patton has garnered much of the glory, General Dwight David Eisenhower has claimed much of the world’s respect, and British General Bernard Montgomery has kept the Union Jack flying, as DeFelice proves, it was the unassuming Bradley who actually developed the strategy and the tactics that won the war in Europe. Meticulously researched, using previously untapped documents and unpublished diaries and notes, Omar Bradley: General at War reveals: Why Bradley, not Patton, deserves most of the credit for America’s victories in North Africa How Bradley—first Patton’s subordinate, then his superior—was one of Patton’s great defenders, while also recognizing his weaknesses, and tried to cover up the infamous slapping incident How Eisenhower panicked—when Bradley didn’t—during the early stages of the Battle of the Bulge, delaying an American counterattack that could have saved thousands of lives Why Bradley was a radical innovator in the use of combined air, armor, and infantry power How Bradley, contrary to those who like to portray him as a staid counterpart to Patton, was one of the most ardent practitioners of fast-moving offensives Why Bradley expected the Germans might use radiological weapons at Normandy Provocative, thorough, original, Jim DeFelice’s Omar Bradley: General at War deserves a place on the shelf of every reader of World War II history.

Author : Mark
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1995-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780788119668

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Aerial Interdiction by Mark Pdf

Examines the practice of air interdiction in three wars: World War II, the Korean War, & the war in Southeast Asia. The author proposes a realistic objective for interdiction: preventing men, equipment, & supplies from reaching the combat area when the enemy needs them & in the amount he requires. Bibliography & index. Contains over 100 charts, tables, maps, & photos.

Author : Eduard Maximilian Mark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Air interdiction
ISBN : UFL:31262052558987

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Aerial Interdiction by Eduard Maximilian Mark Pdf

Author : J. Leman
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9061862353

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From Challenging Culture to Challenged Culture by J. Leman Pdf

Author : Georgia L. Irby-Massie,Paul T. Keyser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134556397

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Greek Science of the Hellenistic Era by Georgia L. Irby-Massie,Paul T. Keyser Pdf

We all want to understand the world around us, and the ancient Greeks were the first to try and do so in a way we can properly call scientific. Their thought and writings laid the essential foundations for the revivals of science in medieval Baghdad and renaissance Europe. Now their work is accessible to all, with this invaluable introduction to c.100 scientific authors active from 320 BCE to 230 CE. The book begins with an outline of a new socio-political model for the development and decline of Greek science, followed by eleven chapters that cover the main disciplines: * the science which the Greeks saw as fundamental - mathematics * astronomy * astrology and geography * mechanics * optics and pneumatics * the non-mathematical sciences of alchemy, biology, medicine and 'psychology'. Each chapter contains an accessible introduction on the origins and development of the topic in question, and all the authors are set in context with brief biographies.

Author : Polybius
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 671 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108050784

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The Histories of Polybius by Polybius Pdf

This 1889 first full English translation of Polybius' Histories remains a fascinating source on the second and third centuries BCE.

Author : Polybius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Greece
ISBN : UOM:39015023269346

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The Histories of Polybius by Polybius Pdf

Author : Polybius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Greece
ISBN : UIUC:30112039653222

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The Histories by Polybius Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IOWA:31858029397555

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The Masonic Review by Anonim Pdf