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

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by John Keahey


  Porto Empedocle

  Prandi, Paola

  prehistoric people of Sicily. See indigenous people of Sicily

  prickly pears

  prisons, inscriptions and graffiti in

  Privitera, Joseph F.

  Sicilian: The Oldest Romance Language

  Sicily: An Illustrated History

  processions

  produce, fresh

  Proserpina B-and-B

  protection, Mafia

  Protestantism

  Puccio-Den, Deborah

  Shrines and Pilgrimage in the Modern World: New Itineraries into the Sacred

  Puglia

  Puma, Salvatore

  costumes of

  Punic wars

  puppet shows

  Racalmuto

  Arab origin of name

  Chiaramonte castle

  Church of San Giuseppe

  Church of the Santa Maria del Monte

  emigrants from

  festivals

  Fondazione Leonardo Sciascia

  history and traditions of

  as subject matter of Sciascia’s books

  Ragusa

  Ragusan Meatballs (Purpetti di maiali)

  Randazzo

  Rao, Simone

  Ravenna

  realists, literary

  Regia Strada (royal highway)

  religious devotion

  reporters, cynicism vs. skepticism of

  restaurants

  family-run

  late hours of

  Restivo, Renée

  revolts

  Rigoglioso, Marguerite

  Rimi, Vincenzo

  rivers

  roads

  Roger, Duke of Apulia

  Roger I Guiscard

  Roger II

  Roman Catholic Church

  hierarchy of

  Romance languages

  Roman Empire

  expansion of

  fall of

  Romans, ancient

  influence of

  rule of Sicily

  Rosalia, Saint

  Rosenblum, Mort

  Rosi, Francesco

  Rossetto Kasper, Lynne, The Italian Country Table

  Runciman, Steven

  Sacra Corona Unità (criminal organization)

  sacrifices to the gods

  saint’s statue (simulacrum)

  Salemi

  Saline River

  salt mines

  Salvatore Giuliano (film)

  Sand, George (Amantine Dupin)

  San Giuseppe’s (Saint Joseph’s) feast day

  sanitation workers

  Sardinia

  Sartarelli, Stephen

  Satan, and sulfur

  Savoy

  sbirro (cop)

  Scarth, Alwyn, and Jean-Claude Tanguy, Volcanoes of Europe

  Schifani, Rosaria

  Schneider, Jane C. and Peter T.

  essay on the Mafia

  Reversible Destiny: Mafia, Antimafia, and the Struggle for Palermo

  Sciascia, Anna Maria

  Sciascia, Laura

  Sciascia, Leonardo

  background of

  birthplace and house of

  Candido

  The Council of Egypt

  The Day of the Owl

  death of kidney failure

  Death of the Inquisitor

  on food

  grandfather of, worked in the sulfur mines

  grave of

  home town of (Racalmuto)

  house and study in Noce

  house and study in Palermo

  influences on

  inscription on plaque of

  life and writing routine of

  on the Mafia

  museum and study center about

  Salt in the Wound

  on Sicilian life

  Sicily as Metaphor

  on the Spanish Inquisition

  statue of, in Racalmuto

  A Straightforward Tale

  wife of (Maria Andronico)

  The Wine-Dark Sea

  Sciascia family, Arab origin of name

  scirocco

  Scopello

  Baia Guidaloca

  seasons

  change of, and festivals

  and crops

  Segesta

  Selinous/Selinunte/Selinus

  temples at

  Sellerio, Enzo, A Photographer in Sicily

  separatist movement

  shrug, Sicilian

  Sicani

  Sicels (Siculi)

  Sicilian, The (film)

  Sicilian dialect

  differences from Italian

  difficult to understand

  grammar

  history of

  loss of

  Sicilians

  Cicero’s high opinion of

  differences from other Italians

  educated, Italian speakers

  ethnic mix of

  helplessness and insecurity of

  national consciousness of

  rigors of pre-mid-20th-century life

  secretiveness of

  sense of the state lacking in

  separatedness of

  suspiciousness of

  Sicilian School of Poets

  Sicilian Vespers revolt (1282)

  Sicilitudine (Sicilian separatedness)

  Sicily

  ancient names for

  archaeological discoveries

  as autonomous region

  beauty of, concealing hardships

  as breadbasket of Rome

  exploitation (colonization) of, by outsiders

  exploitation by Northern Italians

  geology of

  Goethe’s tour of

  identity of, as island nation

  invaders of

  modern-day prosperous and quaint look of

  place names

  post-Unification turmoil

  poverty of, prior to mid-20th century

  rule by foreigners

  separatist movement

  travelers’ accounts

  sight-seeing, dangers of

  Sigonella U.S. Naval Air Station

  Simeti, Mary Taylor

  On Persephone’s Island

  Simon Guiscard

  simulacrum. See saint’s statue

  Siracusa

  Athenian assault on

  duomo of

  Ear of Dionysius

  quarry at

  temple to Athena

  Sirens

  sirocco

  skepticism

  snow

  Sofia, Corrado

  on food

  house of

  soil

  Soluntum

  Sommatino

  sonnets, invented in Sicily

  Sophocles

  Soul of Sicily

  Spain

  Arab conquest of

  rule of Sicily

  Spanish Inquisition

  abolished by royal decree (1783)

  archives of

  protests against

  use of witnesses and torture

  verse of a victim of

  Sparta

  spring

  Steinbeck, John

  Stendhal

  stigghiole (a dish)

  Stille, Alexander

  Excellent Cadavers

  Stiolmi, Beppe

  Strait of Messina

  street names

  sulfur mines and miners

  summer

  heat of

  sùrfaru, simmo/sugnu (“we are just sulfur”)

  Tamburri, Anthony

  Tancred

  Taormina

  taxation

  Taylor, Bayard

  temples

  Thapsos

  Timpanelli, Gioia, Sometimes the Soul

  Tinuccia (cook in Noto)

  Tomasi, Giulio

  tomatoes, sun-dried

  torture

  tourists

  places where they are s
carce

  tradition

  traffic

  Tra i frutti (B-and-B)

  train travel

  Tranchina, Marisin

  Tranchina, Salvatore

  Trapani

  Treaty of Caltabellotta

  Trecastagni

  Trinacria

  Tripoli

  Triptolemus

  troubadours

  Truman, Harry S

  Tuckerman, Henry

  Tunisia

  Twain, Mark

  Tyrrhenian Sea

  Uccello, Antonino

  unemployment

  Unification of Italy

  U.S. Army

  Vandals

  Vatican

  Vecchio, Angelo

  Vecchio, Conchita

  Verga, Giovanni

  birthplace home of

  “Cavalleria Rusticana”

  depictions of 19th century living conditions

  I Malavoglia (The House by the Medlar Tree)

  Little Novels of Sicily

  “Rosso malpelo”

  Verlaine, Paul

  Verres, Gaius

  Verso, Tom, “Child Slavery in Sicily in 1910”

  Vesuvius

  Vicari, Salvatore

  Vigo, Leonardo

  Vikings

  Visconti, Luchino

  Vittorini, Elio

  Vittorio Amadeo di Savoia

  Vittorio Emanuele II

  Voltaire

  Vulcan

  Wagner, Richard

  Washington, Booker T.

  The Man Farthest Down

  water, bottled

  wheat

  William I “The Bad”

  William II “The Good”

  William III

  wine

  winter

  women, surnames of

  women writers

  World War II

  damage of

  fight for Sicily

  remaining vestiges of

  Wright, Clifford A., A Mediterranean Feast

  writers, ancient Greek

  writers, Italian

  writers, Sicilian

  birthplace homes of

  translations of

  young people, employment of

  Zafferana Etnea

  Zancle

  Zeus

  Laura Sciascia, daughter of Leonardo Sciascia; Palermo. (John Keahey)

  Anna Maria Sciascia, Leonardo Sciascia’s youngest daughter, and her son, Vito Catalano; Noce, Racalmuto. (John Keahey)

  Francesca Corrao, Leonardo Sciascia; Gibellina, ca. 1988. (Courtesy of Francesca Corrao)

  Sciascia statue; Racalmuto. (Steven R. McCurdy)

  Festival for the Madonna del Monte, Racalmuto. (John Keahey)

  Racalmuto. (John Keahey)

  Santo Spirito, site of the start of the War of the Sicilian Vespers; Palermo. (John Keahey)

  Inside Palazzo Lampedusa; Palermo. (Courtesy of architects Gabriele Graziano and Alice Franzitta)

  Prisoner painting on cell wall in the Inquisitors Prison; Palermo. (Steven R. McCurdy)

  Franco Bertolino, cart painter; Palermo. (Steven R. McCurdy)

  Men playing scopa, Vucciria; Palermo. (Steven R. McCurdy)

  Salvatore Tranchina; Scopello. (Steven R. McCurdy)

  Pirandello home; Kaos. (Steven R. McCurdy)

  Judge Giovanni Falcone with bodyguards; Marseilles, France, 1986, six years before his Mafia hit. (Gerard Fouet-AFP-Getty Images)

  Maria Falcone, sister of Judge Falcone; Palermo. (John Keahey)

  Salvatore Vicari, who played Alfio the boatboy in La terra trema; Aci Trezza (Steven R. McCurdy)

  Good Friday; Enna. (Steven R. McCurdy)

  PERMISSIONS

  GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material, for translations of material in Sicilian, and for use of photographs:

  Pantheon Books, Inc.: Excerpts from The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa, translated by Archibald Colquhoun, translation copyright © 1960 by William Collins & Co., Ltd. and Random House, Inc. Copyright renewed 1988 by William Collins PLC and Random House, Inc. Used by permission of Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc.

  The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa. © 1958 by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, reprinted electronically by permission of The Wylie Agency, LLC.

  University of Pennsylvania Press: Poem from p. 117 of The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History by Maria Rosa Menocal, copyright © 1987. Reprinted with permission of the University of Pennsylvania Press.

  Alissandru (Alex) Caldiero: Translations from the Sicilian of two selections from the poem “Lingua e dialettu” by Ignazio Buttitta. Translations used by permission of Alissandru (Alex) Caldiero, along with the translation of a stanza carved in stone by an anonymous carver: “U me cori/doppu tant’ anni…” (My heart/after so many years…).

  Photographs: Permissions granted to use photographs by, or owned by, Steven R. McCurdy, Bradley W. Keahey, Francesca Corrao, architects Gabriele Graziano and Alice Franzitta, and Gerard Fouet-AFP-Getty Images.

  ALSO BY JOHN KEAHEY

  A Sweet and Glorious Land: Revisiting the Ionian Sea

  Venice Against the Sea: A City Besieged

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  JOHN KEAHEY is a veteran newspaper journalist and travel writer based in Salt Lake City, Utah. A native of Idaho, reared in the once-small farming community of Nampa, he first visited Sicily in 1986 and, enchanted, returned numerous times in between the reporting and writing of two other travel narratives for Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press: A Sweet and Glorious Land: Revisiting the Ionian Sea (2000) and Venice Against the Sea: A City Besieged (2002). He is married to Connie Disney, a book designer for an independent Salt Lake City–based publisher.

  Note: The recipes in this book are from two sources: Renée Restivo, founder of Soul of Sicily, and Sicily: Culinary Crossroads by Giuseppe Coria. Restivo’s organization is a cultural association based in Noto, Sicily. It offers cooking programs to visitors and opens doors to the culture, art, literature, food, and wine of southeastern Sicily. Programs share local traditions and ingredients: www.soulofsicily.com. Coria (1930–2003) was a Sicilian gastronome, culinary historian, folklorist, and vintner. He collected authentic recipes from family notebooks, interviews, and historical records from as far back as Sicily’s Greek period. Oronzo Editions published his book and other Italian cookbooks: www.oronzoeditions.com.

  THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS.

  An imprint of St. Martins Press.

  SEEKING SICILY. Copyright © 2011 by John Keahey. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

  www.stmartins.com

  Map by Ken Gross

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Keahey, John.

  Seeking Sicily: a cultural journey through myth and reality in the heart of the Mediterranean / John Keahey.—1st ed.

  p. cm.

  Includes bibliographical references and index.

  e-ISBN 9781429990677

  1. Sicily (Italy)—Description and travel. 2. Keahey, John—Travel—Italy—Sicily. 3. Sicily (Italy)—Social life and customs. 4. National characteristics, Sicilian. 5. Sicily (Italy)—Intellectual life. I. Title.

  DG864.3.K43 2011

  945'.8—dc23

  2011026786

  First Edition: November 2011

 

 

 


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