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| Other writers and works Sandra Benjamin Sicily: Three Thousand Years of Human History Giuseppe Bonaviri Dolcissimo James Fentress Rebels and Mafiosi David Gilmour The Last Leopard Marc Llewellyn Finding Nino Theresa Maggio Mattanza The Stone Boudoir Simone Mazzucconi Panarea 1942 (Italian) |
| LETTERATURA Literature in Sicily Though the novel or romanza form was to come much later, poetry had an early start in Sicily around the time of Frederick II (1194-1250), a patron of arts and culture, who is said to have composed several songs. During this period Sicily produced a number of poets, including Giacomo da Lentini, considered to be the father of the sonnet, along with Pier della Vigna, who is mentioned in Dante’s Inferno. Cielo d’Alcamo is famous for a notable dialogue-poem Rosa Fresca Aulentissima. During the Renaissance, the noteworthy studies and research of Antonio Beccadelli and Giovanni Aurispa helped increase classical knowledge, and the work done at the monastery of San Salvatore in Messina brought Greek Classics scholar Costantino Lascaris to the forefront. Later in the 16th Century, the poetic works of Antonio Veneziano and Argisto Giufreddi emerged as proponents of the Petrarchan style, popular at that time, and written in dialect, as well as in Italian. Theatre became popular in the 17th and 18th Centuries largely through the efforts of Ortensio Scammacca, and the Age of Enlightenment brought with it a formal history of Sicily written by Giovanni Battista Caruso, an abbot, as well as a history of Sicilian literature edited by Antonio Monitore. Other famous writers of the period were Tommaso Campailla, Tommaso Natale and especially Giovanni Meli, who is considered to be the greatest Italian poet of his time. The period between the Age of Enlightenment and the new literary realism saw Michele Amari’s distinguished critical histories take their place along with the writings of Eliodoro Lombardi, a proponent of Romanticism and political commitment to Garibaldi and the cause of the Risorgimento. Giuseppe Pitré’s studies of Sicilian folklore raised the ethnic tradition of Sicily to noble historical importance. His legacy lives on today in the Museo Etnografico Pitré in Palermo. Out of a reaction to Romanticism, came the realist movement advanced by the writings of Giovanni Verga with his remarkable I Malavoglia (The House by the Medlar Tree) and its sequal, Mastro Don Gesualdo. Thus, Verga's work brings Sicilian literature into the 20th Century. Contemporary Italian literature owes much to Luigi Pirandello’s pioneering work in early 20th Century fiction with such works as The late Mattia Pascal and The Old and the Young. The triumphant success of his play, Six Characters in Search of an Author brought international fame. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934. Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa portrayed the decline of the Sicilian aristocracy during the Risorgimento in his greatly admired, posthumously published epic novel, Il Gattopardo (The Leopard). It is one of the masterpieces of 20th Century Italian and European literature; a poignant, yet richly complex book, which E.M. Forster called “one of the great lonely books.” Forster also commented that it was "not a historical novel” but "a novel which happens to take place in history" and that "Leopards do not hang on every bush." Misunderstood and criticized at the time of publication because its poetic and traditional style seemed out of date at the time, it nonetheless became a sensation and a success. It has gained in stature over the course of the last half-century, and remains in print throughout the world. |
| Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa The Leopard The Siren and Selected Writings Parco Culturale del Gattopardo |
| Vitaliano Brancati Bell' Antonio Don Giovanni in Sicily The Lost Years |
| Vincenzo Consolo The Smile of the Unknown Mariner Notte tempo, casa per casa Requiem per le vittime della Mafia |
| Leonardo Sciascia Open Doors The Wine Dark Sea and other Short Stories To Each His Own The Council of Egypt Death of an Inquisitor Day of the Owl Equal Danger The Moro Affair Amici di Sciascia Parco Letterario di Leonardo Sciascia |
| Salvatore Quasimodo Poetry: Acque e terra To Give and to Have Debit and Credit Ed e Subito Sera Nobel Prize in Literature 1959 |
| Luigi Pirandello Fiction: The Late Mattia Pascal The Old and the Young One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand Short Stories Plays: Right You Are (If You Think You Are) Six Characters in Search of an Author Henry IV Naked Masks : Five Plays Nobel Prize in Literature 1934 Parco Letterario di Luigi Pirandello |
| Elio Vittorini Conversations in Sicily Men and Not Men Erica two short novels Women of Messina The Twilight of the Elephant The Red Carnation The Dark and the Light A Vittorini Omnibus: In Sicily, the Twilight of the Elephant, La Garibaldina: In Sicily and Other Novels |
| Danilo Dolci A New World in the Making. Creature of Creatures: Selected Poems The man who plays alone Report From Palermo Sicilian Lives |
| Dacia Maraini Bagheria Darkness Only Prostitutes Marry in May: Four Plays The Silent Duchess Voices bibliography |
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| John Julius Norwitch The Normans in Sicily The Kingdom in the Sun Leoluca Orlando Fighting the Mafia Palermo Peter Rob Midnight in Sicily Alexander Stille Excellent Cadavers Mary Taylor Simeti On Persephone's Island Pomp and Sustenance Gioia Timpanelli Sometimes the Soul |
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