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Sicily: land of myth Sicily: land of myth

Author: Enzo Russo
Pages: 198
Size: 22x25,8 cm

 

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This volume offers the temple of Segesta, eternal and isolated in the midst of the country side, the Good Friday processions involving entire cities, the desolate conditions of the Baroque in small towns, Sicily`s sea, island and volcanoes - all these images might well destabilise readers, but they will also and above all make them think and drive their imagination beyond the mere surface of the photographs into the spirit of an ancient land whose natural and architectural treasures are part of the inheritance of humanity itself.  

    


Sicily: Art, History and Culture Sicily: Art, History and Culture

Authors: Enzo Russo, Giovanni Francesio, Melo Minnella
Pages: 320
Size: 22x25,8 cm
 

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Few places in the world have experienced such an intense and eventful history as Sicily.

Rocked by revolts and power-struggles, rejoicing in great splendour and freedoms, over thousands of years this small island has been a crossroads for many peoples, religions and cultures - and its melting-pot of influences has created a unique spirit of "Sicilian-ness".

This hook - with evocative photographs by Melo Minnella - attempts to capture the elusive spirit of Sicily, its inhabitants and its landscape, and offers a sweeping account of the island, from ancient history up to the present day.  

 

 

    


Sicily: History and Masterpieces Sicily: History and Masterpieces

Pages: 192

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Sicilia Luoghi di Silenzio Sicilia Luoghi di Silenzio

Authors: Elena Bazzolo e Marco Stoppato

 

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LE MERAVIGLIE DELLA SICILIA LE MERAVIGLIE DELLA SICILIA

Production - Registration Affinità Elettive
Duration 45`

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From trendy Palermo to the several enchanting and tranquil isles, indulge in the passion of Sicily. Visit sunny Sicily.

See the worderful beaches, ride through the streets of towns with legendary history. Study Baroque art and architecture in Noto.

Enjoy colorful regional festivals. Sky on the Mount Etna, the highest active volcano in Europe. Step back in time at the Temple Valley in Agrigento.

 

    


LA SICILIA DA CONOSCERE E DA RICORDARE LA SICILIA DA CONOSCERE E DA RICORDARE

Author: Salvatore Quattrocchi
Page: 213
Publication: May 2004

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This comprehensive guide to Sicily provides travelers with unparalleled information on one of Italy`s most popular tourist destinations.

Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean. Its strategic location has attracted Greeks, Carthaginians, Romans, Byzantines, Saracens, Normans and Catalans to settle or rule. Each period has left its mark on the island`s heritage and it has an exceptional legacy of fine building ranging from the great Greek theatres and temples to the splendid Norman monuments showing both Moorish and Bzyantine influences.

Sicily offers an exceptional wealth of history and art, set in a landscape of remarkable intensity and variety. An overview of the island`s geography and history is followed by an exploration of its cities and sights, divided into 43 chapters focusing on different towns within the island starting from the capital, Palermo, and traveling along the coast, to outlying islands, and through the interior.

Each chapter is packed with archaeological sites, museums, examples of baroque architecture, and descriptions of numerous other cultural attractions. Throughout the book, interesting information brings to life the island`s many-layered history.  

    


Sicilia Da Amare - Itinerari nella natura - Tutti gli Agriturismo della Sicilia Orientale Sicilia Da Amare
The routes in nature
TAll Farm Holiday in Eastern Sicily

Pages: 16o
 

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Sicilia Da Amare - Itinerari nella natura - Tutti gli Agriturismo della Sicilia Orientale Sicilia Da Amare
The routes in nature
All Farm Holiday in Western Sicily

Pages: 160
 

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Palaces of Sicily Palaces of Sicily  

Pages: 323
Size: 22x25,8 cm
 

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This book is the first to trace the evolution in style of the fabulous homes that have been built on the island from feudal castles to city mansions and country villas.

Luxuriant gardens, rich furnishings, frescoes and ancient mosaics - all these can he found in the pages of palaces of sicily thanks to an unprecedented photographic coverage which wonderfully illustrates the extraordinary delights of the island.  

 

    


Easter in Sicily Easter in Sicily  

Author:Antonino Buttitta e Melo Minnella
Pages: 243
 

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Christmas in Sicily Christmas in Sicily  

Author:Antonino Buttitta e Melo Minnella
Pages: 243

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Primo Passava San Giuseppe: Viaggio nella Sicilia della festa che cambia Primo Passava San Giuseppe
Viaggio nella Sicilia della festa che cambia
 

Author:Giovanni Cammareri
Publisher : PS Advert Edizioni
Pages: 267

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In Sicily, fest and processions are synonymous, as prayer and parties. Sure, many things change: statues of Saints that today cross the ways on top of vans or truck, and lamps replaced the fire in top of wood candles.

The unifying element of the book could be the changes, sometimes obvious, than in the years influenced the modalities of the same feasts.

The choice has fallen on more or less known celebrations, characterized by great emotional intensity (inherited from the Greeks and from the antient pagans) but also on those characterized by a great religious sense.

Colors, voices, intense mysticism, all is equally source of show during the nocturnal processioni in winter, or in the warmer hours in summer.

Common element of the described feasts is the absolute participation of the interested communities, and this makes the same feasts particularly and extraordinarily. despite the changing times.  

    


Sicilia e i Suoi Sapori Sicilia e i Suoi Sapori

Author:Pino Agostini
Pages: 192  

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Theasures of Sicilian Cuisine Treasures of Sicilian Cuisine

Authors: Paolo Salerno - Leonardo Frusteri - Alba Allotta - Salvatore Fraterrigo
Pages 120: 89 recipes with coloured pictures
Publication: 2004

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One hundred-twenty pages volume with coloured pictures. Polished and shiny coated paper. Hard Cover with titles impressed by warmth gold. Plasticized and coloured book jacket. Enjoy the eclectic recipes and pictures. Then go to the kitchen and cook genuine Sicilian food.

Some recipies: Busiate
"Le Busiate"

Some recipies: Anelletti
"Gli Anelletti"

In this fine and interesting book you will find the following recipes:

Almond nougat, Almond "Semifreddo", "Arancine", Baked ring pasta, Barbecued lamb cutlets, "Biancomangiare", Bread "cunzato", Breaded roasted meat, Breaded swordfish, "Buccellati", "Cabbucio", "Cannoli", "Cassata", Cassatelle with ricotta, Cauliflower croquettes, Cauliflowers in batter, Cauliflowers stew, "Cotognata", Cuscus with fish, "Cubbaita", Dressed olives, Dried cod "alla messinese", Drowned octopus, Eggplant "Caponata", Eggplant Parmigiana, Eggplant roulades, Fish croquettes, Fish Soup, "Frascatole" with cauliflowers, Fried dried cod, Fried tuna semen, "Frittedda", Fruit of Martorana, Garbanzo beans and rice soup, Glazed kid, Kid with almonds, Lasagna with meat sauce and ricotta cheese, "Maccu" with croutons, Mackerel fillets "lardiati", Marinated tuna, "Matalotta" conger-eel, "Matarocco" sauce on toast, Meat roll, Octopus salad, Orange salad, "Panelle", "Pantesca" salad, Pasta "alla Norma", Pasta with cauliflowers, Pasta with potatoes, Pasta with Sardines, "Peperonata", "Rianata", Ricotta raviolis in broth, "Salamureci", Salted sea bass, Sardines "a beccafico", Sardines "a linguata", Sausage sauce with pork rinds, "Sciusceddu", "Sfincione", Sicilian roulades, Snail salad, Snails "a ghiotta", Spaghetti with bread crumbs and anchovies, Spaghetti with fried zucchini and mint, Spaghetti with sea urchins, Spaghetti with tuna botargo, St. Joseph "sfinge", "St. Joseph`s" soup, Stuffed artichokes, Stuffed peppers, Stuffed squids, Sweet and sour rabbit, Sweet and Sour Yellow Pumpkin, Swordfish & Eggplant pasta, Swordfish roulades, Swordfish soup "a ghiotta", "Taboulè", "Tenerumi" soup and "Picchi-pacchi" sauce, Trapani`s pesto & pasta, Tuna botargo, Tuna "Carpaccio", Tuna rissoles, Tuna sauce and pasta, Tuna with onion stew, Turkish salad, Watermelon sherbet, Zucchini and potato soup.  

    


Wines of Sicily Wines of Sicily  

Author:Antonino Buttitta e Melo Minnella
Pages:128

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EXTRAORDINARY SICILIAN SONG COLLECTIONS

PROFUMU DI GIURGENTI PROFUMU DI GIURGENTI (SCENT OF AGRIGENTO)

Text and Music Composed by Bruno Alcozer
Performed by Michele Bruno
Sung by Tony Bentivegna
Published in 1998

This volume, together with SICILIA AMARA E DUCI, is the first and the only Sicilian song collection translated into Italian and English by Bruno Alcozer (Author of texts and music).

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Profumu di Giurgenti and the newly released volume two, Sicilia Amara e Duci, will give you the opportunity of discovering a little better Sicily by describing the main characteristics of it through a very clear Sicilian.

Profumu di Giurgenti (Scent of Agrigento) consists in a beautifully packaged combination of a music CD (or cassette tape), a 56-page book, a 13" x 20" poster suitable for framing, and another 72-page book with the complete trilingual translation of the previous 56-page book.

A typical container easily holds the contents and is made to be stowed away like a book in a library shelf.

The CD (or cassette tape) contains a collection of 14 between songs and instrumental musical renditions, while the book contains the text of all the songs together with many color photographs and a thorough introduction by the author.  

 

SICILIA AMARA E DUCI SICILIA AMARA E DUCI (SWEET AND BITTER SICILY)

Text and Music Composed by Bruno Alcozer
Performed by Michele Bruno
Sung by Tony Bentivegna
Published in 2001

This volume, together with PROFUMU DI GIURGENTI, is the first and the only Sicilian song collection translated into Italian and English by Bruno Alcozer (Author of texts and music).

How to order this collection.

Also Sicilia Amara e Duci will give you the opportunity of discovering a little better Sicily by describing the main characteristics of it through a very clear Sicilian.

Sicilia Amara e Duci (Sweet and Bitter Sicily) is also constituted of a beautifully packaged combination of a music CD (or cassette tape), a 56-page book, a 13" x 20" poster suitable for framing, and another 72-page book with the complete trilingual translation of the previous 56-page book.

A typical container easily holds the contents and is made to be stowed away like a book in a library shelf.

The CD (or cassette tape) contains a collection of 14 between songs and instrumental musical renditions, while the book contains the text of all the songs together with many color photographs and a thorough introduction by the author.

PLEASE NOTICE THAT VOLUME ONE AND TWO CANNOT BE PURCHASED SEPARATELY.  

    


Pinocchio Pinocchio  

Author:Carlo Collodi
Pages: 243  

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U Malocchiu U Malocchiu
Hilarious dialectal three-act play of Giovanni Maniscalco

A production of G.B. Organization di Giovanni Maniscalco
Marsala (TP) Italia
Duration min. 110
Price:
VHS/PAL Euro 25,00 (included mail delivery service to your address)
VHS/NTSC: USD 50,00 (included mail delivery service to your address)
A booklet with dialectal text and Italian translation is also included.

The Plot of "U Malocchiu" is set in Sicily, "U Malocchiu" tells about the events of a family, whose components, father, mother and engaged daughter, are up against unfavorable situations, overtaken by panic and suggestion they are convinced they are victims of a "Malocchio", that is a "witchcraft", to get rid of it they talk with the magician Oronzo.

Naturally the purpose of the magician isn`t to help the three victims, but to capitalize on earning on their simple-mindedness. Only at the end, after a series of events, very amusing, our characters open their eyes thanks to the intervention of the daughter`s boyfriend. The theater of Giovanni Maniscalco is a comic one, permeated by a sound realism that allows him to part from a purely farcical fact to raise the emblem of contradictions of a social reality that is wanting of strong landmarks.

The language used in the performance is that spoken everyday where the real life takes place that the characters perform on the stage: the Sicilian of the areas of Marsala. The protagonists of the opera, Vittorio, Sara, Lucrezia, in this sense, are practically the mirror of a society where more often values decay in the individual and in the general conscience and to be replaced by prejudices and superstition.  

    


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