Sicily

By: Horatio Clare

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Paperback | 30 June 2006

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Sicily, at the epicentre of the Mediterranean, has endured its fair share of invaders and Imperial viceroys. It is a cruicible European culture, a place where the Phoenicians, Athenians, Romans, Arabs, Normans, Habsburgs, Bourbons and Byzantines all flourished, stimulating them to produce some of the finest and most distinctive work. Yet this always co-existed with a resilient indigenous culture, expressed in its own mythology, cuisine, wine and monumental architecture as well as in its attachment to secret societies, from the Sicilian Vespers to the moders-day Mafia.

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Acknowledgements	p. vii
Map of Sicily	p. x
Arrivals	p. 1
Snake	p. 4
from Motya: Unearthing a Lost Civilisation	p. 8
from The Odyssey	p. 12
from Diodorus Book IV	p. 25
from Polymnia	p. 31
from Pindar's Victory Songs	p. 32
from The History of the Peloponnesian War	p. 38
The Mosquito	p. 49
The Cylops	p. 52
from Plutarch's Lives	p. 57
from The Verrine Orations I	p. 63
Miracles	p. 68
from The Golden Honeycomb	p. 71
from The Travels of Ibn Jubayr	p. 76
On the Fitness of Seasons	p. 94
Selected poems	p. 94
from The Sicilian Vespers	p. 97
from The Golden Honeycomb	p. 107
from Letters from Italy	p. 110
Selected poems	p. 121
from The Leopard	p. 130
People of the Earth	p. 139
The She-Wolf	p. 141
from Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays	p. 145
Adrianna Takes a Trip	p. 146
from Conversations in Sicily	p. 159
from Milocca: A Sicilian Village	p. 169
from The Plague-Spreader's Tale	p. 188
from Words are Stones: Impressions of Sicily	p. 194
Salvatore Giuliano	p. 203
from The Ten Pains of Death	p. 207
from The Man Who Plays Alone	p. 217
The Curse	p. 225
from Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia	p. 227
from The Honoured Society	p. 233
from The Day of the Owl	p. 256
from Midnight in Sicily	p. 260
The Life	p. 270
from The Snack Thief	p. 272
from On Persephone's Island: A Sicilian Journey	p. 278
from The Stone Boudoir	p. 288
from One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Bed	p. 295
Epilogue: Departure	p. 302
Good-Bye to the Mezzogiorno	p. 303
Bibliography	p. 306
Further Reading	p. 308
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