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
/>
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)