Sicily - Historical Essays ... index
Sicily - Historical Essays ... index
(July 15, 2016)
Over the years there have been a number of random essays posted on this blog about the history and culture of Sicily. The purpose of this posting is to provide an aggregated reference list organized topically.
1) Sicily’s History - an “Eternal Reoccurrence”
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/11155/sicily-s-history-eternal-reoccurrence
2) “Siciliana” … The Book Every Sicilian-American Should Read! … But Can’t! … Too Little Education – Too Many Terroni-ized Teachers
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/38523/siciliana-book-every-sicilian-american-should-read-can-t-too-little-education-too-man
3) Sicily’s Revolutionary Spirit … From Ducetius (450 BC) to Brigandage (1866 A.D.) … and then … The Spirit Died!
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/39848/sicily-s-revolutionary-spirit-ducetius-450-bc-brigandage-1866-d-and-then-spirit-died
II. Ancient Sicily
1) Global Warming - “Fall of Man” and Birth of Mediterranean (Primordial Southern Italian) Culture
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/35258/global-warming-fall-man-and-birth-mediterranean-primordial-southern-italian-culture
2) Sicilian Dawn
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/34282/sicilian-dawn
3)Sicel-Sicilians and the Birth of Sicilian Culture
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/38723/sicel-sicilians-and-birth-sicilian-culture
4 ) Mysterious West Sicily: Elymians, Trojan Refugees, Odyssey Women, Ligurian Colonizers, Rome’s Founders
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/36201/mysterious-west-sicily-elymians-trojan-refugees-odyssey-women-ligurian-colonizers-rom
5) Palermo: Ancient Rivers and Modern Streets
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/15886/palermo-ancient-rivers-and-modern-streets
6) Palermo - Ancient Walls and Modern Streets
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/35498/palermo-ancient-walls-and-modern-streets
7)Lessons in Curriculum Patria Meridionale: Greeks come to Sicily – Causes and Consequences
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/16977/lessons-curriculum-patria-meridionale-greeks-come-sicily-causes-and-consequences
8)Rome’s Thousand Year ‘Battle With The Gods’ in Southern Italy and Sicily … The Birth of Christendom (aka Western Civilization)
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/39285/rome-s-thousand-year-battle-gods-southern-italy-and-sicily-birth-christendom-aka-west
9) Sicily and the “Clash of Civilizations” - Why Greco-Roman...Why NOT Etruscan-Roman or Phoenician-Roman Civilization?
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/23693/sicily-and-clash-civilizations-why-greco-roman-why-not-etruscan-roman-or-phoenician-r
10) “Clash of Western and Islamic Civilizations” 2012 A.D. began circa 800 B.C. in Sicily
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/34672/clash-western-and-islamic-civilizations-2012-d-began-circa-800-b-c-sicily
III. Sicilian Language
1) Lu Sicilianu … Its Origins and Evolution
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/38827/lu-sicilianu-its-origins-and-evolution
2) Joseph F. Privitera: Creative Sicilian Language Teacher...Towards a Southern-Italian American Curriculum
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/34039/joseph-f-privitera-creative-sicilian-language-teacher-towards-southern-italian-americ
3) Sicilian and Southern Italian languages: Lessons of Norway and Ireland
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/16517/sicilian-and-southern-italian-languages-lessons-norway-and-ireland
4) Tuscan ‘lingua franca’ Dialect vs. southern-Italian ‘indigenous’ Languages
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/16467/tuscan-lingua-franca-dialect-vs-southern-italian-indigenous-languages
5) Archeology of Language: Sicilian ‘Beddu’ and Arabic ‘Badu’
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/15317/archeology-language-sicilian-beddu-and-arabic-badu
IV. Sicilian Founders of Rome
1) “Sicilian Lights on Roman Origins”
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/1225/sicilian-lights-roman-origins
2) “Science, Irony and Italian History - a “Southern Question” twist!”
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/10391/science-irony-and-italian-history-southern-question-twist
3) “Sicilian Founders of Rome (revisited...again) – The Logic of Historiography (wonkish: hate philosophy?...forget-about-it!)
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/19841/sicilian-founders-rome-revisited-again-logic-historiography-wonkish-hate-philosophy-f
V. Sicilian Author of Homer’s Odyssey
1) “Step Aside Homer! "The Authoress of the Odyssey” is a Sicilian Girl from Trapani
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/35865/step-aside-homer-authoress-odyssey-sicilian-girl-trapani
2) “Odyssey” ‘Song of Sicily’… Poet’s Images = Sicilian Reality”
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/35917/odyssey-song-sicily-poet-s-images-sicilian-reality
3) “Odyssey” – Women of Greece vs. the Women of Sicily
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/36014/odyssey-women-greece-vs-women-sicily
VI. Kingdom of Two Sicilies
1) “The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies: 11th Century Origin and 21st Century Ghost”
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/17083/kingdom-two-sicilies-11th-century-origin-and-21st-century-ghost
2) Sicilian Vespers and the history of the Flag of Sicily
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/1023/sicilian-vespers-and-history-flag-sicily
3) Aristotle, “Prizzi’s Honor” and Ghost of “Two Sicilies”
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/12232/aristotle-prizzi-s-honor-and-ghost-two-sicilies
VII. Garibladi Mythology
1) Garibaldi and Victor Emanuel II … With Heroes Like These Who Needs Enemies? ... ‘Court Historians’ and Nietzsche’s “Zarathustra””
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/39096/garibaldi-and-victor-emanuel-ii-heroes-these-who-needs-enemies-court-historians-and-n
2) PBS “Italian Americans” Documentary Perpetuates Garibaldi Myth … Poor Donna Gabaccia – “Sandbagged” or OMG! she doesn’t know?!?
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/39471/pbs-italian-americans-documentary-perpetuates-garibaldi-myth-poor-donna-gabaccia-sand
3) Risorgimento’s Class Character: Poets and Scholars - Lampedusa and Denis Mack Smith
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/16396/risorgimento-s-class-character-poets-and-scholars-lampedusa-and-denis-mack-smith
VIII. Between Risorgimento and Mussolini
1) “Sicily Travelers: L. Franchetti (Northern Italian Bourgeois) vs. Booker Taliaferro Washington (American born Slave)”
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/18416/sicily-travelers-l-franchetti-northern-italian-bourgeois-vs-booker-taliaferro-washing
2) Sicily’s Class Character circa 1900 - Lampedusa vs. Booker Taliaferro Washington
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/15755/sicily-s-class-character-circa-1900-lampedusa-vs-booker-taliaferro-washington
3) Child Slavery in Sicily 1910
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/1066/child-slavery-sicily-1910
4) Why They Came – Italy’s Shame
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/9036/why-they-came-italy-s-shame
5) Folklore of Sicilian Peasant Culture – Perniciously ignored in Italian (Italy Ends at the Garigliano) Studies Programs
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/34923/folklore-sicilian-peasant-culture-perniciously-ignored-italian-italy-ends-garigliano-
6) Terroni Americana - Gramsci Test Case...M. Amari (Scholar, Revolutionary, Statesman) vs. A. Manzoni (novelist)
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/16728/terroni-americana-gramsci-test-case-m-amari-scholar-revolutionary-statesman-vs-manzon
7) Towards an Italian American Curriculum - Lampedusa’s “The Leopard” is a pedagogical gold mine
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/9418/towards-italian-american-curriculum-lampedusa-s-leopard-pedagogical-gold-mine
IX. Mussolini to Present
1) “Mount Allegro” revisited in terms of Gribaudi and Dickie’s historiography
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/2421/mount-allegro-revisited-terms-gribaudi-and-dickie-s-historiography
2) Menighetti & Nicastro’s “History of Autonomous Sicily (1947-2001)” … Sicily’s Tragic Flaw?
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/38265/menighetti-nicastro-s-history-autonomous-sicily-1947-2001-sicily-s-tragic-flaw
3) “Italy – Modern Architectures in History” … Senza il Sud o Sicilia (Surprise!)
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/40551/italy-modern-architectures-history-senza-il-sud-o-sicilia-surprise
4) “The Renaissance Perfected” – Tuscany a Fascist Potemkin Village – Must Reading for Southern-Italian Americans!
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/40310/renaissance-perfected-tuscany-fascist-potemkin-village-must-reading-southern-italian-
X. Art, Movies and Literature
1) Before Fresco...Mosaic ("True Painting for Eternity") – Sicilian Majesty: Cefalu, Cappella Palatina, Monreale
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/18945/fresco-mosaic-true-painting-eternity-sicilian-majesty-cefalu-cappella-palatina-monrea
2) Guy de Maupassant’s “SICILY” – Sicilian Mosaics and Guido Education
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/19674/guy-de-maupassant-s-sicily-sicilian-mosaics-and-guido-education
3) Poles of Italian Architecture: Northern ‘Mega’ vs. Sicily’s ‘Veil’
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/16105/poles-italian-architecture-northern-mega-vs-sicily-s-veil
4) In the matter of southern Italian vs. northern Italian ART - Benedetto Croce is called to the stand.
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/13467/matter-southern-italian-vs-northern-italian-art-benedetto-croce-called-stand
5) ‘Forget-about’ Manzoni’s novel for an HBO Series ... Sing “Goat-Songs” of the South – Lampedusa and Domini
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/29513/forget-about-manzoni-s-novel-hbo-series-sing-goat-songs-south-lampedusa-and-domini
6) “Bitter Rice”, “The Earth Trembles” and “The Italian/American State of Mind”(culture)
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/1392/bitter-rice-earth-trembles-and-italian-american-state-mind-culture
7) Brancati’s “Don Giovanni in Sicily ” … Surely No Greater Contempt for Sicily … Plato: “Beware the Poets and Tragedians”
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/38933/brancati-s-don-giovanni-sicily-surely-no-greater-contempt-sicily-plato-beware-poets-a
8) “Vendetta Mountain” by C. A. Fiore ... A ‘Low-Brow’ Symptom of ‘Culture War’ Waged Against Southern-Italian Americans
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/36587/vendetta-mountain-c-fiore-low-brow-symptom-culture-war-waged-against-southern-italian
9 ) “Trinacria” – At Long Last! … A Southern-Italian American (Pre-Ellis Island) Historic Novel … and High-Brow Literature ‘To Boot’
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/37321/trinacria-long-last-southern-italian-american-pre-ellis-island-historic-novel-and-hig
10) Aristotle, “Prizzi’s Honor” and Ghost of “Two Sicilies”
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/12232/aristotle-prizzi-s-honor-and-ghost-two-sicilies
11) “Sicily: Language, Art, and Culture”
- University of Pennsylvania - February 2016 -- { Senza Storici }
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/41450/sicily-language-art-and-culture-university-pennsylvania-february-2016-senza-storici
XI. Mafia
1) Mafia – the Origins and Meaning of the ‘Word’ – Do Scholars Misrepresent and Denigrate Giuseppe Pitré???
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/35354/mafia-origins-and-meaning-word-do-scholars-misrepresent-and-denigrate-giuseppe-pitr
2) Prostitutes and Lemon Trees: John Dickie’s ‘New Mafia Historiography’ Fails Without Social Science –The Class Character of Crime
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/35753/prostitutes-and-lemon-trees-john-dickie-s-new-mafia-historiography-fails-without-soci
3) “Mafia Brotherhoods: Organized Crime, Italian Style” by Letzia Paoli … Brilliant Social Scientific History – Absolutely!
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/36821/mafia-brotherhoods-organized-crime-italian-style-letzia-paoli-brilliant-social-scient
4) Mafia-ology: The Terroni-ization of Southern-Italian Americans … A Gramsci Hegemony/Culture War Analysis
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/36958/mafia-ology-terroni-ization-southern-italian-americans-gramsci-hegemony-culture-war-a
5) Mafia Studies: Subjective “Representations” vs. Objective “Realities”
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/36717/mafia-studies-subjective-representations-vs-objective-realities
6) Mafia Justice: Puzo and Aeschylus
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/8348/mafia-justice-puzo-and-aeschylus
7) Plato and Mafia Movies
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/11729/plato-and-mafia-movies
XII. Terroni
1) Pino Aprile’s “Terroni”: All That Has Been Done To Ensure That The Italians of The South Became "Southerners"– a review
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/18584/pino-aprile-s-terroni-all-has-been-done-ensure-italians-south-became-southerners-revi
2) “Terroni” and “Polentoni” – Revisited … The Culturally Lobotomized Southern-Italian Americana
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/36446/terroni-and-polentoni-revisited-culturally-lobotomized-southern-italian-americana
3) Terroni Americana - Gramsci Test Case...M. Amari (Scholar, Revolutionary, Statesman) vs. A. Manzoni (novelist)
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/16728/terroni-americana-gramsci-test-case-m-amari-scholar-revolutionary-statesman-vs-manzon
4) American Terroni – 3,000 year Lost History of “Patria Meridionale”
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/16791/american-terroni-3-000-year-lost-history-patria-meridionale
5) “Chickens come home to roost” – Italian Studies suffers consequences for aversion to Patria Meridionale.
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/16911/chickens-come-home-roost-italian-studies-suffers-consequences-aversion-patria-meridio
6) Terroni-ism in Sicily Today
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/38626/terroni-ism-sicily-today
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