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Separatism, the Allies and the Mafia
This study examines the separatist movement's origins, its leaders and followers, the actions in which separatists engaged to establish a free Sicily, the factors that caused the movement's demise, and its legacy. This book also examines the relationship of the separatist movement to the United States, Great Britain, and the Sicilian mafia.
Village Politics and the Mafia in Sicily
Refocusing the study of village politics and the mafia by extending rational choice institutionalism to Italian history and politics, Sabetti shows what can happen when those acting for the state regard ordinary people as passive voices in the game of life."--BOOK JACKET.
The scientific dialogue linking America, Asia and Europe between the 12th and the 20thCentury.
The first volume of Viaggiatori “Curatele” series seeks to recreate some scientific dialogues, namely meetings, exchanges and acquisition of theoretical and practical scientific knowledge, thus linking the cultural, historical and geographical context of America, Asia, Europe and Mediterranean Sea between the 16th and the 20th century. More specifically, the main objective is to consider the role of travellers as passeurs, as “intermediaries” for building and allowing the circulation of knowhow and the practical and theoretical knowledge from one continent to another.
The Mourikis Project
This story is a historical and literary fiction that begins in the late fourteenth century and depicts the missions of Earth’s first Alien with a unique and ancient make. The Alien is with an innate ability to see and communicate with spirits and is assigned and guided by prehistoric beings of a primordial past, and exist as powerful spirits that seek to renew the forgotten past She walked. Meanwhile, in this journey, She is paired with a weighty pendulum.
Sicily in English Literature
In the book there is a selection of texts about Sicily written by british writers such as Shakespeare, Milton, Lawrence, Durrel....The reader will be trasported to this secret land and will discover the poetic meaning of this mysterious island than only poets can explain.
Women and the Art and Science of Collecting in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Through both longer essays and shorter case studies, this book examines the relationship of European women from various countries and backgrounds to collecting, in order to explore the social practices and material and visual cultures of collecting in eighteenth-century Europe. It recovers their lives and examines their interests, their methodologies, and their collections and objects—some of which have rarely been studied before. The book also considers women’s role as producers, that is, creators of objects that were collected. Detailed examination of the artefacts—both visually, and in relation to their historical contexts—exposes new ways of thinking about collecting in relation to the arts and sciences in eighteenth-century Europe. The book is interdisciplinary in its makeup and brings together scholars from a wide range of fields. It will be of interest to those working in art history, material and visual culture, history of collecting, history of science, literary studies, women’s studies, gender studies, and art conservation.
British and American writers in Sicily
It is a selection of diaries, letters, poems... written by anglophone travellers like Coleridge, Wilde, Woolf, Ruskin, Pound, Lawrence, Durrel, Forster. They visited Sicily and left their memories. At the end of the book there is a list of all famous british and american writers that visited the island. Il testo raccoglie una selezione di viaggiatori di tradizione anglofona quali Coleridge, Wilde, Woolf, Ruskin Pound, Lawrence, Durrel ecc che tracciano dei percorsi originali e innovativi nel periplo dell'isola e in particolare Taormina il territorio Etneo. Ogni testo, tratto dalle fonti originali viene, presentato con una breve contestualizzazione storica e biografica di ogni autore e una ricostruzione dell'itinerario di viaggio e delle principali tappe. In appendice l'elenco di tutti gli scrittori anglofoni che hanno visitato l'isola.
Literature and Geography
In a period marked by the Spatial Turn, time is not the main category of analysis any longer. Space is. It is now considered as a central metaphor and topos in literature, and literary criticism has seized space as a new tool. Similarly, literature turns out to be an ideal field for geography. This book examines the cross-fertilization of geography and literature as disciplines, languages and methodologies. In the past two decades, several methods of analysis focusing on the relationship and interconnectedness between literature and geography have flourished. Literary cartography, literary geography and geocriticism (Westphal, 2007, and Tally, 2011) have their specificities, but they all agr...
Carusi: The Shame of Sicily
A fiery explosion in the sulfur mine kills his father leaving 5 year old Aspanu head of his family. -His mother struggles as she is faced with signing his life away as an indentured servant, saying he will now work in the 100+ degree mines to pay off their debt. -When the townspeople see no real change in their working conditions regarding their safety, and the people are fed up with unfair labor practices, they hold clandestine meetings to stage a massive riot in the square. -Civil unrest boils and comes to a head. Impending, dangerous backlash looms when the mine owners find out. -Aspanu's mother's 'connections' warn her to not be in the square when the riot takes place, and she in turn tells her son, but he doesn't listen. -Screams, dark clouds of explosives, thunderous noise, and dead bodies line the streets. One of the bodies is someone who Aspanu loved dearly. -Emmigrating to America, he tries to forget his heart-breaking past and make a new life for himself. -He learns a lot about the values we all hold dear, and where the church, the mafia, and freinds and family fit in to that picture.
