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I. General History

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