Sicily: a cultural history

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Machine generated contents note: ch. One Cultures Of Sicily: The Rosebud Quest -- Identity and Traditions -- Stones of Sicily -- Word on the Baroque -- ch. Two Wounded By History: Sicily's Troubled Past -- Caliphate: Arab Rule -- 1061 and All That: the Norman Kingdom -- Spanish Viceroys -- Painful Modernity -- ch. Three Morals And Manners: Sicilian Society And Tastes -- Matador Drivers -- Religious Feasts -- Cuisine and Coffee -- ch. Four Imagined Island: Sicilian Writers -- Sicily Arab and Greek -- Twentieth Century -- ch. Five Men Of Honour: A Note On The Mafia -- Definitions -- History -- Development and Organization -- ch. Six Arrivals And Departures: The British And Americans In Sicily -- Marsala Barons -- British Rule -- War and Invasion -- America's Sicily: Diaspora and Myth -- Sicily in American Imagination -- ch. Seven Landing Stage: Messina -- Long History -- Cathedral and Surrounds -- Artworks -- ch. Eight Southwards To Etna: The Peloritani Mountains -- Taormina -- Mount Etna -- ch. Nine Unlikely Connections: Bronte, The Brontes And Lord Nelson -- Maniace, Nelson's Estate -- ch. Ten Second City: Catania -- Antiquity and Reconstruction -- Catanese Baroque -- ch. Eleven Goddesses And Madonnas: Enna -- Calascibetta -- ch. Twelve Sicily The Greeks Left: Classical Remains -- Siracusa, the Prodigious City -- Christian Siracusa -- Districts of Siracusa -- ch. Thirteen Glory Of The Baroque: The Val Di Noto -- Adventures in the Baroque -- ch. Fourteen Great Temples: Agrigento, Segesta And Selinunte -- Agrigento -- Selinunte -- Segesta -- ch. Fifteen Phoenicians, Saracens And Yorkshiremen: The South-West Corner -- Mazara del Vallo -- Marsala -- Mozia -- Erice -- Trapani -- ch. Sixteen Capital City: Palermo -- Palermo Felix -- Urban History -- Arabs and Normans -- Monreale, the Royal Mount -- Spanish and Baroque Palermo -- Palaces, Theatres and Sorry Sights -- Quirky Corners -- ch. Seventeen Out Of Palermo: Corleone, Bagheria And Cefalu -- Mafia Heartlands -- Poets and Eccentrics -- Cefalu -- ch. Eighteen Aeolian Islands: A Volcanic Archipelago -- Stromboli.