Citations:Sicilies

English citations of Sicilies

• 2016 April 29, Rino Coluccello, quoting Sturzo, Challenging the Mafia Mystique: Cosa Nostra from Legitimisation to Denunciation‎^[1], Springer, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 87:

  When you say that western and eastern Sicily have different physionomies and customs, so that there are two Sicilies in the one, they look at you as if they cannot manage to understand your meaning.

• 2019 February 20, Austin Fisher, Blood in the Streets: Histories of Violence in Italian Crime Cinema‎^[2], Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 109:

  By subverting such well-known cultural associations tying Sicily to Italy's primal roots, this overt focus on the island's contemporary society serves to underscore a tension within the mafia filone between the past and the present, and between competing cinematic 'Sicilies'.

• 2022, Robert Maltais, Antonio Martino, an Italian life: Biography‎^[3], Cacucci Editore S.a.s., →ISBN:

  Sicily is not one. It's at least two. Mostly Arabs and the Spanish have influenced Western Sicily. Mostly the Greeks have influenced Eastern Sicily. So, the two Sicilies don't have that much in common.