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  2. Conversations in Sicily - Wikipedia

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    The story concerns Silvestro Ferrauto and his return to Sicily after a long absence. Major themes of the work are detachment, poverty, exploitation and marital fidelity and respect. Conversazione in Sicilia literally translates to English as Conversation in Sicily ; English translations have appeared under that title and a variety of other ...

  3. Sicilian Vespers - Wikipedia

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    The event takes its name from an insurrection which began at the start of Vespers, the sunset prayer marking the beginning of the night vigil on Easter Monday, 30 March 1282, at the Church of the Holy Spirit just outside Palermo. [8] [9] Beginning on that night, thousands of Sicily's French inhabitants were massacred within six weeks. The ...

  4. War of the Sicilian Vespers - Wikipedia

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    [3] [5] Frederick's lands in Sicily and the Holy Roman Empire surrounded the papal states, and thus trapped the Pope between the metaphorical German hammer and Sicilian anvil. [6] Frederick II was one of the greatest, most energetic, imaginative and capable rulers of the entire Middle Ages.

  5. Sicilia! - Wikipedia

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    Sicilia! follows a man returning to visit his native Sicily, after living in New York City for many years. The film is an adaptation of Elio Vittorini's anti-fascist novel Conversations in Sicily, which was first published in 1941. [1] The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. [2]

  6. Elio Vittorini - Wikipedia

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    His best-known work, in English speaking countries, is the anti-fascist novel Conversations in Sicily, for which he was jailed when it was published in 1941. The first U.S. edition of the novel, published in 1949, included an introduction from Ernest Hemingway , whose style influenced Vittorini and that novel in particular.

  7. Five bodies found inside superyacht that sank off Sicily - AOL

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    PORTICELLO, Sicily — Divers recovered four bodies Wednesday from inside a superyacht that sank in a sudden storm off Sicily, Salvatore Cocina, director of the island's Civil Protection Agency ...