With their usual authority and wit, Facaros and Pauls reveal the complexities of Sicilian culture and history as well as describing its many sights. They give the latest details on hotels, restaurants, festivals, travel, sports, and entertainment. Detailed maps will help you find your way around.
Peter Robb lived in southern Italy for over fourteen years and recounts its sensuous pleasures, its literature, politics, art, and crimes.
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 ...
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 ...
In this riveting, rich history Jamie Mackay peels away the layers of this most mysterious of islands. This story finds its origins in ancient myth but has been reinventing itself across centuries: in conquest and resistance.
A History of Sicily
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Here is an epic drama that takes readers from Sicily’s remote mountains to chaotic post-war Palermo, from the intricacies of forbidden love to the havoc wreaked by Sicily’s eternally bewildering culture.
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A powerful passage in Thucydides has been instrumental in shaping ancient and modern perspectives of Syracusan and Sicilian Greek social development.430 The passage forms part of a speech out of the mouth of Alcibiades, delivered on the ...
Whether you're looking for things not to miss at the Top 10 sights or want to find the top place to eat, this guide is the perfect companion, taking the best of the printed guidebook and adding new eBook-only features.