the story of Sicily:things from Casa Nostra

- How to tell you the story of Sicily?

here a short summary of a land of beauty and contraddictions:

(I tried an English version):

180 millions years ago among a coral reef

Madonie Nebrodi Peloritani and Erei appeared

it's hot

flora fauna and short elephants

Etna came out from submarine eruptions

Stentinello 5000 years ago

Sicani defeated by the Siculi

Pantalica and the city of deads

Sailors and Phenicians

sea urchins and sword fish

Naxos and Siracusa

theatres carved into the rock

Polyphemus and the mermaids

Archimedes and his specchi ustori

Scilla and Carybdis

Punic wars and Roman

wheat and gladiators

Vandals Ostrogothic and Byzantine

Arabs and Normans

oranges and lemons

scimitars and sheiks

irrigations and architecture

pottery and cassate

Frederick II and the Sicilian poetry school

Aragonese and Angevins

the first Parliament and the Vespers

when the French made us angry

then peace treaty at Caltabellotta

Hasburg and Charles V

the Bourbons and the Kingdom of Two Sicily

Garibaldi wounded

Piedmontese and Carabinieri

The Lepard and puppeters

Unification of Italy

Earthquake in Messina

gangsters and Mafia

coppola and lupara

Giovanni Verga and Luigi Pirandello

migration and World Wars

Fascism

the Alliers landing and Lucky Luciano

the sicilian caffè corretto

Placido Rizzotto and Totuccio Impastato

Tano Badalamenti and Marlon Brando plays The Godfather

Buscetta and Dalla Chiesa

Andreotti and La Mafia

the case of Mattei and the strange case of Sindona

Pizza Connection

Falcone and the maxi-trial

Totò Schillaci at the World Championship

the slaugther in Capaci and via d'Amelio

the money of Ciancimino, Cuffaro and Lombardo

the bridge on the Straits of Messina and the ferries of Franza..

..and then..

I'd could tell you more

but then

the island was eaten by the sea.

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