Illustrated History of Sicily

A visual journey through the land, cuisine, people, language, and living traditions of Sicily — the crossroads of civilizations.

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The final chapter of Sicilian Odyssey is an epilogue on modern day

By the late 1970s the despair of the Sicilian people had reached

Post-war Sicily faced enormous challenges: rebuilding shattered cities, multiple humanitarian crises from

On July10, 1943, the Allied forces launched Operation Husky, the invasion of

This chapter covers the period from roughly 1890 to 1940 — the

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Far from romanticizing this early period of Italian unification, the chapter examines

The fall of the Bourbons in 1860 completed one of the longest

On May 11, 1860, Giuseppe Garibaldi landed at the port of Marsala

The year 1848 is known in European history as the “Year of

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