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Books about Sicily and Southern Italy
+ Books about the Normans
Link to Southern Italy and Sicily Photo Galleries
"One of the best books to emerge from WW II"
THE NORMANS IN SOUTHERN ITALY AND ELSEWHERE
Link to yet another fascinating Paradoxplace page: The Normans (and the Hohenstaufens) in Southern Italy and Sicily, 1000 TO 1266
For those that thought that good renovation / sea-change stories were all set in Tuscany and Umbria
The arresting cover of this seriously well illustrated coffee table book shows a bust c1470 of Eleonara (sic) of Aragon by Francesco Laurana (Palermo - Galleria Regionale della Sicilia, Palazzo Abatellis)
An interesting Sicilian from the 1700s
Lampedusa's (1896 - 1957 (61)) book "Il Gattopardo" (accurately translated as Ocelot or Serval) is set in the Risorgimento and only became published and famous after his death.
Pirandello (1867 - 1936 (69)) - Sicily's Nobel Prizewinning Playwright (from Agrigento).
Sciascia (1921 - 1989 (68)) - the ultimate Sicilian short stories - especially about crime.
This is a wonderful book by one quality writer about another.
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