Seeking Sicily: A Cultural Journey Through Myth and Reality in the Heart of the Mediterranean

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by John Keahey


  Agyrium

  air-conditioning

  Akragas

  Albanians in Sicily

  Albero Falcone, L’ (Falcone tree)

  Alcàntara River

  Alexander, Sir Harold

  Alexander the Great

  Alexandria

  Allies (World War II), invasion of Sicily

  almonds

  Alphonso of Aragon

  American army

  weapons of, acquired by Mafia

  World War II

  Andini, Giuseppe

  Andronico, Maria

  Angevin dynasty

  animals on the road

  anthesphoria festival

  Antonello da Messina, Virgin Annunciate

  Apulia

  Arabic language

  Arab literature

  Arabs

  ancestry of Sicilians from

  conquest of Sicily

  conquest of Spain

  influence of

  rule of Sicily

  Aragon

  Sicily united with

  Archimedes

  architecture

  historic

  modern, often jarring

  restoration projects

  Aristotle

  Asinara

  asparagus

  Aspromonte range

  Athens, expedition against Siracusa

  Auden, W. H.

  Augusta

  Aulenti, Gae

  Austrians

  auto-da-fé

  automobiles

  autumn

  Avola

  Balearics

  bandits

  bands (musical)

  banks

  Barbato, Nicola

  Barbieri, Concetta

  barons

  beaches

  Belice river

  Berbers

  Berruguete, Pedro de

  Bertolino, Franco

  Bologna

  bonfires (falò)

  Borgo Braemi

  Borsellino, Paolo

  murder of

  Bourbon dynasty

  in Italy

  boys

  horseplaying

  sulfur miners (carusi)

  Braneti, Marco

  Braudel, Fernand, The Mediterranean in the Ancient World

  bread

  bridge proposal (Messina to the mainland)

  Bronte

  broom (Genista aetnensis)

  burning at the stake

  butter

  Buttitta, Ignazio

  “Lingua e dialettu” (poem)

  Byzantine Empire

  Byzantine Greeks

  cactus crop

  Calabria

  Caldiero, Alissandru (Alex)

  Caltabellotta

  Caltanissetta

  Calvino, Italo

  Camilleri, Andrea

  L’odore della notte

  The Snack Thief

  camorra (criminal organization)

  Campofranco

  Camporeale

  Canicattì

  cannolo (pastry)

  Caos

  Capaci

  Capo San Vito

  caps (coppola)

  Capua

  carbonara (word)

  Carcinus

  Cardinale, Claudia

  Carthaginians

  Rome’s defeat of

  carts (carretti)

  hand-painted

  names for specialized types

  rare at present time

  cassata (pastry)

  cassatine di Pasqua (Easter cake)

  Castellammare

  Castelvetrano

  Castrofilippo

  Catalano, Nino

  Catalano, Sofia

  Catalano, Vito

  Catania

  cart painting in

  effect of Etna’s eruptions

  Catania-Palermo autostrada

  Catholics

  devotion of

  and the pope

  See also Roman Catholic Church

  Cato

  cats, feral

  “Cavalleria Rusticana”

  cave drawings

  caves of Etna

  Cefalà Diana, baths of

  Cefalù

  cemeteries (cimitero)

  Charlemagne

  Charles I of Anjou

  Charles II of Anjou

  Charles II of Spain

  Charles III Bourbon

  Chiarelli, Leonard

  A History of Muslim Sicily

  child laborers (carusi)

  Christ, simulacri (statues) of

  Christianity

  churches, taking refuge in

  Ciane

  Ciane River

  Cicero

  ciliu il cero dei borgesi, u (scramble for the flag)

  Cinema Paradiso (film)

  city gates

  Colajanni, Enrico

  Colette

  communists

  confraternities

  Constance (daughter of Roger II)

  Constance (wife of Peter of Aragon)

  Constantinople

  conversi (Jewish converts)

  cookbooks

  the first

  of Sicilian cuisine

  cooking

  Arab influence

  and family life

  Sicilian recipes

  Coria, Giuseppe, Sicily: Culinary Crossroads

  Corinth

  Corleone

  Corrado, Rossario

  Corrado, Vella

  Corrao, Francesca

  Corrao, Ludovico

  Counter-Reformation

  Croce, Marcella

  Cutrona, Claudio

  Cyane

  cyclops

  cynicism vs. skepticism

  Cyprus

  Dante

  De Angelis, Franco, Megara Hyblaia and Selinous

  Del mangiar siracusano (magazine)

  Delon, Alain

  Demeter

  Denaro, Matteo Messina

  dessert

  De Stefani, Livia

  dialect. See Sicilian dialect

  diaspora (emigration) of Sicilians

  Di Blasi, Count

  Dickie, John, Delizia! The Epic History of Italians and Their Food

  di Miceli, Dario and Laura

  dining

  out-of-doors

  Diodorus Siculus

  Dionysius, tyrant of Siracusa

  Dittaino Valley

  DOC (Denominazione di Origine Controllata)

  dogs

  Dominic, Saint

  Dominicans

  donkeys

  driving in Sicily

  drummers at festivals

  Dunbabin, Jean

  Easter holiday

  Easter Sunday

  Edmund of Lancaster

  eggplant

  Ellittico volcano

  Elymians

  emigration. See diaspora of Sicilians

  Encyclopedia of Kitchen History

  Enna

  castle

  Church of Montesalvo

  Easter processions

  Porta di Janniscuru

  Porta di Palermo

  Rocca di Cerere

  temples

  Epicharmus

  Erice

  Etna (Mungibeddu)

  benefits and dangers of

  craters of

  designated a regional park

  eruptions

  geologic history of

  going to the top of

  view from

  Euripides

  exports

  Falcone, Giovanni

  cult of

  murder of

  Falcone, Maria

  Falcone-Borsellino Airport

  families

  and food

  trust only in

  farms

  Fascism

  Felipe de Barberis

  Ferdinand and Isabella, of Spain

  Ferdinand I (IV, III) Bourbon

  Ferd
inand II Bourbon

  festivals (festa)

  feudalism

  Fiat

  ficatu nno ’ntrigghiu (liver in nets)

  ficodi liqueur

  field guard, Mafia

  Finley, M. I., A History of Sicily to the Arab Conquest

  fish dishes

  fishing

  flag scramble (ciliu)

  floats

  Florence

  focaccia

  folklore

  Fondazione Giovanni e Francesca Falcone

  foods, Sicilian

  those first seen in Sicily

  Food: The History of Taste

  foreign powers, asking help of, and being taken over by

  Francesco I

  Francesco II

  Franzitta, Alice

  fratellanze (early Mafia brotherhoods)

  Frederick I Barbarossa (Red Beard)

  Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

  Frederick III of Aragon

  French

  influence of

  rule of Sicily

  fruit trees

  Galatea

  garbage

  Gardaphé, Fred

  Garibaldi, Giuseppe, invasion of Sicily

  Gela

  Germans

  Giacomo da Lentini

  Giaquinta, Mario

  Gibellina

  giro (tour) of Sicily

  Giufà (trickster figure)

  Giuliano, Salvatore

  birthplace of

  execution of

  exhumation of, to check DNA

  Godfather films

  gods and goddesses, Greek and Roman

  sacrifices to

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Italian Journey

  Golden Door (film)

  Gole dell’Alcàntara

  Good Friday

  Goths

  Graci, Linda

  Gramsci, Antonio

  Granara, William

  granita (dessert dish)

  grapes

  Graziano, Gabriele

  Greeks, ancient

  colonization of Sicily

  influence of

  mores of

  wars among

  Greek-Sicilians

  Green, Toby, Inquisition: The Reign of Fear

  guides

  Guiscard, Robert

  Gulf of Castellammare

  Gutkowski, Emanuela

  Guttuso, Renato

  Gyp

  Hades

  Hamilton, Canada

  Harris, Moira F.

  Henry VI, Emperor

  Hephaestus

  Hera

  herbs

  heretics

  confiscation of land of

  Himera

  Hohenstaufen dynasty

  homeless people

  Homer. See Iliad; Odyssey

  honey

  horses

  in festivals

  keeping in the house

  travel by

  Hotel Des Palmes

  hotels

  Houël, Jean-Pierre

  Iblei Mountains

  Ibn Hamdīs

  Ibn Hawqal, Book of the Face of the World

  Ibn Thumnah

  ice from Etna

  Iliad

  illuminati

  incest

  indigenous people of Sicily

  inquisition (word). See also Medieval Inquisition; Spanish Inquisition

  irrigation system

  Islam

  conversion of Sicilians to

  traditions

  Italian language

  influence of Sicilian dialect on

  resistance of Sicilians to speaking

  as spoken in Sicily

  See also Sicilian dialect

  Italy

  new nation of

  North/South divide

  in World War II

  James of Aragon

  Japan

  Jensen, Frede, The Poetry of the Sicilian School

  Jesus, role of, played in festivals

  Jews

  conversi (converts)

  cooking customs

  Joseph, Saint

  Kalbite dynasty

  Kamarina

  Kaos (film)

  Keahey, Brad

  Kingdom of the Two Sicilies

  Kowalska, Anna

  La Cosa Nostra (“our thing,” the Mafia)

  Lago di Pergusa

  La Kasbah

  La Matina, Fra Diego

  Lampedusa, Giuseppe di

  birthplace and home of

  See also Leopard, The

  Lampedusa family

  palaces of

  lampuga (fish and dish)

  Lancaster, Burt

  landowners

  and the Mafia

  land reform

  languages

  death of

  See also Italian language; Sicilian dialect

  La terra trema (film)

  latifundia (estates)

  lava

  Leighton, Robert, Sicily Before History

  lemons

  Leopard, The (Il gattopardo) (book by Giuseppe di Lampedusa)

  film of

  Lewis, Norman, In Sicily

  Libero Futuro

  Licata

  Licodia Eubéa

  Lilybaion

  literacy

  Lombards

  Lopez de Cisneros, Juan

  Lo Zingaro Nature Reserve

  lupara (shotgun)

  Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria

  Madonie mountain range

  Madonna, simulacri (statues) of

  Mafia

  confiscations of property of members of

  denial of its existence

  elite’s disdain for

  growth of power of, late 19th century

  history of

  and landowners

  murders of prosecutors

  origin of name

  police and prosecutor actions against

  popular fight against

  present situation of

  public attitudes toward

  Magna Graecia

  Malta

  Manfred

  Mangione, Jerre, Mount Allegro

  Maraini, Dacia

  marketplaces

  Marsala

  martial law

  Mary, mother of Jesus

  Masseria Scioltabino

  Maupassant, Guy de

  Sicily

  Maxi Trial of 1986–87

  May Day processions

  Portella della Ginestra massacre

  Mayer, Elizabeth

  Mazàra

  Mazara del Vallo

  Mazzucchelli, Chiara, “Heart of My Race”

  McCarthy, Mary

  McCurdy, Steve

  meat

  meatballs, always homemade

  Medieval Inquisition

  Mediterranean

  currents leading to Sicily

  Roman control of

  Megara Hyblaia

  Menocal, María Rosa, The Arab Role in Medieval Literary History

  “men of honor”

  Messina

  Messina, Maria, Behind Closed Doors

  Mexico City

  Middle Easterners

  Miller, H. D.

  Milo

  Mirisciotti, Gaetano

  Misilmeri

  Mithaecus of Siracusa

  Modica

  Modione river

  Montalbano (fictional Camilleri character)

  Montelepre

  Morante, Elsa

  Moravia, Alberto

  Morvillo, Francesca

  moscato di Noto

  mosques

  Motya

  Mozia

  ’mpanate (breads)

  multiculturalism in Sicilian history

  Mungibeddu (Sicilian name for Etna). See Etna

  Muslims

  dynasties

  influence of

  rule of Sicily

  Muslim Sicilians
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  after the Norman conquest

  mythology

  Nalbone, Lillo

  Naples

  Nausicaa

  Naxos

  ’Ndrangheta (criminal organization)

  Nebrodi mountains

  Nervo, Baron Gonzalve de

  Nicolosi

  Noce

  Sciascia’s house in

  Normans

  conquest of Sicily

  influence of

  rule of Sicily

  North Africans

  Noto

  Odysseus

  Odyssey

  officialdom, and connections

  old men

  former miners

  friendships of

  often illiterate

  villagers

  olive oil

  olive trees

  age of

  harvesting

  Operation Clean Hands

  organ meats

  Ortygia

  Oven-baked Pasta (Pasta ’ncasciata)

  Padovani, Marcelle, Sicily as Metaphor

  Padrut, Sabina

  paganism

  Palermo

  architecture

  Branciforte Palace

  Cathedral

  court of the Holy Roman Empire at

  Favara Palace

  Hotel Trinacria

  Kalsa (Khālisa) district

  Oratory of Saint Zita

  Palatine Chapel

  Palazzo Lampedusa

  people of (Palermitani)

  Piana dei Colli

  Piazza Cattedrale

  rough gray stone buildings

  Sant’Orsola cemetery

  Santo Spirito church

  Steri Palace and prisons (later, Palazzo Chiaramonte)

  as subject matter of Sciascia’s books

  Trattoria Shanghai

  Via Cala

  Via Lampedusa

  Via Vittorio Emanuele

  Vucciria area

  World War II bombing damage

  Panormos

  papyrus plants

  parades

  parking tickets

  pasta

  Pasta alla Norma Sicilian style

  Pasticceria Mandorlafiore

  patron saints

  Patton, George

  peasants

  depictions of

  not seen by Goethe

  poverty of

  pedestrians

  Peloponnesian War

  Peloritani mountains

  pensioners

  Pensione Tranchina

  peppers, roasted

  Pergusa

  Persephone

  Peter I of Aragon

  Peter II of Aragon

  Peters, Edward, Inquisition

  Petrarch

  Phillip V Bourbon

  Phoenicians

  Piana degli Albanesi

  May Day massacre (1947)

  Sasso di Barbato platform

  Piazza Armerina

  Pickering-Iazzi, Robin, Mafia and Outlaw Stories: From Italian Life and Literature

  Piedmonte

  Pietraperzia

  Pillitteri, Peppi

  Traditions of Our Fathers: The True Sicilians

  Pindar

  Pirandello, Luigi

  birthplace home of

  “Ciàula Discovers the Moon”

  “The Other Son”

  Pisciotta, Gaspare

  pistachios

  Pitrè, Giuseppe

  pizzo (protection money)

  refusal to pay

  Pizzo Carbonara (Carbonara Peak)

  Pizzuta mountain

  place names

  plague

  Plato

  police

  politicians

  Mafia control of

  Polyphemus

  poor, the

  cooking of

  pre-mid-20th-century

  pope, the

  Portella della Ginestra massacre (1947)

 

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