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Sicily - Historical Essays ... index
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...
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“Sicily: Language, Art, and Culture” - University of Pennsylvania - February 2016 -- { Senza Storici }
How excited and proud all Sicilian Americans can feel about an international conference about Sicily being held at a crème de la crème Ivy League University (see: https://www..
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Arnold J. Toynbee: “The Creation of a Literature in Latin on the Pattern of the Literature in Greek”
Professor Cory Crawford of Brigham Young University writes in his paper “A Brief History of the Italian Language”: “We could write tomes on the changes [from Latin to...
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Professor Cosetta Seno’s asks: …“Who Did It? The Mysterious Murder of the History of Italian Literature” … [part 2 of 2]
In my first blog commentary on University of Colorado Italian Studies Professor Cosetta Seno’s 2014 “Italica” article (“Who Did It?
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Professor Cosetta Seno asks: …“Who Did It? The Mysterious Murder of the History of Italian Literature” … [part 1 of 2]
In her 2014 “Italica” article, “Who Did It?
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“Italy – Modern Architectures in History” … Senza il Sud o Sicilia (Surprise!)
Unlike most architectural history books, filled predominately with pictures and aesthetic narratives in terms of genre (Neo-Classical, Baroque, etc.) and noting how the pictured...
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“Brooklyn Existentialism: …” A Great Must Read Book – but Flawed by Authors’ Excessive Ambition and Confused Metaphysics
Arthur DiClementi and Nino Langiulli, respectively of “St. Francis College” Math and Philosophy Departments; have written a book that should be the curriculum basis of the...
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“The Renaissance Perfected” – Tuscany a Fascist Potemkin Village – Must Reading for Southern-Italian Americans!
‘The Northern Question’ … is never a topic of southern-Italian American academic consideration; while untold English language volumes relentlessly pure forth about its...
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Gregory Corso – Natural Born: Poet, Intellectual and “Boho Dancer” … An Extraordinary Southern-Italian American
Being profoundly poetry challenged – I simply can’t read the 'stuff '. A couple of lines of poetry in any form and my brain shuts down, I begin thinking about the Mets’...
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Paul Piccone – Natural Born Intellectual … Terroni Surprise: 19th Century Neapolitan Origins of 20th Century Italian Philosophy
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Northern Italian Cultural Hegemony in the Capital of Southern-Italian Americana … Content Analysis of i-Italy|NY Seasons 5 and 6
In their book of essays, “Italian Cultural Studies: An Introducation”, editors David Forgacs and Robert Lumley write: “We hope this book will stimulate a critical...
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Sicily’s Revolutionary Spirit … From Ducetius (450 BC) to Brigandage (1866 A.D.) … and then … The Spirit Died!
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In 1860, seeking an independent State of Sicily, Sicilians were revolting against the Naples based Bourbon government of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. /// /// Never missing an...
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