British And American Writers In Sicily

Author : Carmine Rapisarda
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1291092226
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British and American writers in Sicily written by Carmine Rapisarda and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-11-04 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Elio Vittorini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Sicily written by Elio Vittorini and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrew Edwards
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857734873
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sicily written by Andrew Edwards and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : John Julius Norwich
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0812995171
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sicily written by John Julius Norwich and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Rick Atkinson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805088618
Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Day of Battle written by Rick Atkinson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-09-16 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second volume of his epic trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Atkinson tells the harrowing story of the campaigns in Sicily and Italy.

Author : Joseph Farrell
Publisher : Interlink Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1623710502
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sicily written by Joseph Farrell and published by Interlink Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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 : James Holland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781787632936
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sicily '43 written by James Holland and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Codenamed Operation HUSKY, the Allied assault on Sicily on 10 July 1943 remains the largest amphibious invasion ever mounted in world history. Based on battlefield studies in Sicily and on new research the author offers a perspective on this major turning point in World War II

Author : Francesco Rocco Ruggeri
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 138797789X
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sicilian Visitors Volume 2 - Culture written by Francesco Rocco Ruggeri and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Keahey
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429990678
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seeking Sicily written by John Keahey and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Keahey's exploration of this misunderstood island offers a much-needed look at a much-maligned land."—Paul Paolicelli, author of Under the Southern Sun Sicily is the Mediterranean's largest and most mysterious island. Its people, for three thousand years under the thumb of one invader after another, hold tightly onto a culture so unique that they remain emotionally and culturally distinct, viewing themselves first as Sicilians, not Italians. Many of these islanders, carrying considerable DNA from Arab and Muslim ancestors who ruled for 250 years and integrated vast numbers of settlers from the continent just ninety miles to the south, say proudly that Sicily is located north of Africa, not south of Italy. Seeking Sicily explores what lies behind the soul of the island's inhabitants. It touches on history, archaeology, food, the Mafia, and politics and looks to nineteenth- and twentieth-century Sicilian authors to plumb the islanders' so-called Sicilitudine. This "culture apart" is best exemplified by the writings of one of Sicily's greatest writers, Leonardo Sciascia. Seeking Sicily also looks to contemporary Sicilians who have never shaken off the influences of their forbearers, who believed in the ancient gods and goddesses. Author John Keahey is not content to let images from the island's overly touristed villages carry the story. Starting in Palermo, he journeyed to such places as Arab-founded Scopello on the west coast, the Greek ruins of Selinunte on the southwest, and Sciascia's ancestral village of Racalmuto in the south, where he experienced unique, local festivals. He spent Easter Week in Enna at the island's center, witnessing surreal processions that date back to Spanish rule. And he learned about Sicilian cuisine in Spanish Baroque Noto and Greek Siracusa in the southeast, and met elderly, retired fishermen in the tiny east-coast fishing village of Aci Trezza, home of the mythical Cyclops and immortalized by Luchino Visconti's mid-1940s film masterpiece, La terra trema. He walked near the summit of Etna, Europe's largest and most active volcano, studied the mountain's role in creating this island, and looked out over the expanse of the Ionian Sea, marveling at the three millennia of myths and history that forged Sicily into what it is today.

Author : Samuel W. Mitcham Jr.
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811746690
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Battle of Sicily written by Samuel W. Mitcham Jr. and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2007-06-18 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The campaign for Sicily from the Axis point of view. Reassesses the German Army's performance. Details about German commanders who have been neglected by historians.