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 | | Sicilian politics was intertwined with politics in Greece itself, leading Athens, for example, to mount the disastrous Sicilian Expedition during the Peloponnesian War. | | | Sicilian Origins in Europe arguing that Sicilians are descended from Ancient Greek and Italic settlers, with minimal foreign admixture | | | Sicily's population is approximately 5 million, and there are an additional 10 million people of Sicilian descent around the world, mostly in the United States, Argentina, Canada, Australia and other EU countries. |
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| | The War of the Sicilian Vespers--the revolt of the Sicilians against the rule of the ANGEVINS--began spontaneously at the time of vespers (evening worship) on Easter Monday, 3/31/1282, and over the next several months it resulted in the massacre of almost the entire French population of Sicily. | | | Sicilian folklore now includes the expression, "Succede un Sette E Mezzo" to describe a catastrophe. | | | Not a single Jew remains in Sicily; the majority of the Sicilian Jews find refuge in the cities of southern Italy. |
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| | Yet the Sicilians strongly supported the patriotic uprising against an oppressive French regime, and the legend of the Sicilian Vespers took on a new significance in the mid-19th Century as a calling-cry for Italian nationalism in the lead-up to reunification of the Italian state. | | | According to another legend, the Sicilians would hold up a chick-pea and asked anyone whom they suspected of being French, “tell us what this is”; if the suspect could not pronounce | | | On Easter Monday of 1282, the citizens of Palermo rose up against their Angevin (French) rulers, ultimately gaining independence for the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. |
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| | Both the Germans and the Sicilians claim him as their own. | | | If, as Leonardo Sciascia said, Sicily is a metaphor for the world, it is unsurprising that Palermo would be a metaphor for Rome or Milan, where the "Clean Hands" political trials (for bribery) of the early 1990s were no more conclusive than the Andreotti trial at finding the culprit for Italy's persistent political difficulties. | | | When two garbage collectors find the body of local politician Silvio Luparello locked in his BMW with his pants down, in "the Pasture," the Vigata town dump frequented by prostitutes and drug dealers, the coroner rules that Luparello died of natural causes, despite clear evidence to the contrary. |
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| | The Sicilian Vespers is the name given to a rebellion in Sicily in 1282 against the rule of the Angevin king Charles I, who had taken control of the island with Papal support in 1266. | | | His French officials (who governed Sicily badly) mistreated the native Sicilians, including rape, theft and murder without reproach. | | | Although some have claimed that this is a plausible explanation of the origins of the word "Mafia", it has all the marks of folk etymology. |
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| | According to this legend, the uprising was carefully planned by a conspiracy of Sicilian nobles and foreign powers. | | | No one knows the real reason for the uprising, and there is debate as to whether or not it was organized by a secret conspiracy. | | | Some say that the Frenchman was killed by her husband, others claim that a stranger in the crowd murdered the French soldier. |
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| | PlaybillArts: Features: The Real Sicilian Vespers |
| | Charles' warships never embarked for Constantinople, but the bloody Sicilian Vespers marked the end of more than just his campaign for domination of the entire Mediterranean world. | | | When a French sergeant grabbed the wife of a Sicilian, he was immediately killed. | | | Furthermore, he could approve the subject matter from among several proposals. |
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| | Two Sicilies, Kingdom of, 1848-49 |
| | A Sicilian, Salvatore Maniscalco, was placed in charge of the police, and, in his effort to restore government authority, cooperated with the | | | Luigi Settembrini's 1847 Protest of the People of the Two Sicilies, although suppressed, was passed from hand to hand and inspired an elite of potential rebels. | | | In September, Ferdinand dispatched a force of twenty thousand to seize Messina. |
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| | Scholars now agree that it probably was the Arabs who invented pasta (click to read read our history of pasta). | | | The men of the city were so enraged that they murdered every Frenchmen they could find. | | | During Roman rule a strong Christian population began to emerge, mostly through conversion. |
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| | Brunetto Latino, Dante Alighier. Brown Ink, Red Blood: Brunetto Latino and the Sicilian Vespers |
| | The deaths of Ugolino and his progeny by starvation as a result of Florentine plotting concerning Pisa will possibly cause the establishment of Orsanmichele as a granary for famine. | | | He goes underground, and, after February of 1275, except for the 1280 Peace of Cardinal Latino, I believe, he goes underground into a world of secret diplomacy, until the Sicilian Vespers of 1282. | | | I will attempt to demonstrate Brunetto Latino's possible secret diplomacy and complicity in this affair, with documents in archives associated with and naming Brunetto, and with accounts of the Vespers plotting found in Latino manuscripts. |
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| | The Sicilians, unhappy with heavy tax burdens and the moving of the capital to Naples, massacred the French garrison and offered the crown instead to Peter III of Aragon. | | | Charles of Anjou changed the face of European politics and founded a dynasty whose predominance would last until the death of Robert of Naples in 1343. | | | Charles' later years were troubled by Sicilian rebellion, marked most prominently by the Sicilian Vespers uprising of 1282. |
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| | Sicilian Vespers -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! |
| | The rising broke out prematurely when Sicilians, incensed by Charles's oppressive regime, killed some insulting French soldiers at vespers in the church of Santo Spirito. | | | Includes a biography, a filmography, excerpts from an interview, and synopses of works like The Godfather and The Sicilian. | | | The Mafia has for centuries been a notorious Sicilian organization. |
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| | Judge Paolo Borsellino, who had only recently returned to the Sicilian capital as Palermo's deputy chief prosecutor, was killed instantly. | | | Both men paid a high price for investigating the affairs of the clique of families which controlled much of what went on around Corleone, a web whose influence spread from Sicily to the Bronx and on to Chicago and the casinos of Nevada. | | | The Albanians who moved to Sicily from the mid fifteenth century onwards are among the few migrants to Sicily who had no aspirations to conquer their new home. |
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| | In reality, though, the most prominent leaders of the Sicilian Mafia were enrolled into the MVSN, the fascist Militia, and it was only the low-level suspects that were charged in Mori’s campaign, mainly for propaganda purposes. | | | The Mafiosi who escaped prosecution fled to the United States. | | | Unlike the Camorra in Naples, their was no hierarchical organization, rather, each group operated on its own. |
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| | Contrary to contemporary belief, Sicilian is not a dialect. | | | Charles' oppressive rule provoked the Sicilian Vespers (1282), a revolt in which the Sicilians chose Peter III of Aragon as their king. | | | The easterly part of the Island has many Greek temple ruins which evidences that nation’s presence. |
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| | The Sicilian Vespers (Steven Runciman) - book review |
| | While most of the events described occur in Sicily and southern Italy, the story naturally spans the whole Mediterranean world — Crusades against the Muslims, attacks on the Byzantine Empire, politics in Northern Italy and Spain &; and happenings even further afield, in England and Germany and Central Asia. | | | It describes the planning by Charles of an attack on Constantinople and culminates in an account of the Sicilian Vespers, the bloody uprising of Sicily against the Angevins, and the conquest of the island by Aragon. | | | The Sicilian Vespers is pure political and military history, with no discussion of the social or economic background. |
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| | Classical Net - Verdi - Les Vêpres Siciliennes |
| | Cursed by the Sicilians, Henri is also hated by Hélène who has also been imprisoned. | | | The two are reunited and later at the ball, Henri is torn between his new found father and his friends and decides in favor of his father. | | | In the city, Procida who is the banished leader of the Sicilian patriots, exhorts a small band of patriots to deliver their homeland. |
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| | Having married Constance, daughter of Manfred, he came forward as the representative of the claims of the Hohenstaufen in Naples and Sicily against Charles, Duke of Anjou. | | | Angevin efforts to regain the kingdom were futile, and Peter ruled Sicily until his death in 1285, leaving the throne to his sons, James II and Frederick III. | | | In Decameron II.6, Peter is depicted positively from the Ghibelline point of view of Currado II during the Sicilian Vespers; in X.7, Peter is portrayed as the subject of the passion of a young patrician woman. |
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| | Together, King Peter and the Emperor Michael planned a conspiracy against Charles centered in Aragon, Constantinople, and Sicily. | | | However, the Sicilian people took matters into their own hands. | | | This was Charles' capital in Sicily, where the French forces where strongest and the Sicilians had benefited most from Angevin rule. |
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| | VESPERS, SICILIAN - Online Information article about VESPERS, SICILIAN |
| | Charles at once led an expedition against the Sicilians and besieged See also: | | | Procida, a Salernitan noble with Sicilian connexions, who had been in the service of Hohenstaufens, but, having lost position and See also: | | | trade, and the government treated the Sicilians with the utmost contempt. |
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| | Viviano, Frank, Blood Washes Blood: A True Story of Love, Murder, and Redemption Under The Sicilian Sun, 270 pp., Pocket Books, New York, 2001. | | | This is the definitive work of this period in Sicilian history. | | | This is a collection of Sicilian expressions, each of which is explained by the author with anecdotes from his childhood or otherwise. |
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| | Fast forward to 1990, I’m heading to a bookstore in Manhattan that has a copy of "The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano" set aside for me. Surely the semi-reluctant Boss of Bosses will set this matter straight for me. He’s the one who ordered the deaths to begin with. | | | I became fascinated by the "Night of Sicilian Vespers" after reading about it in the book Murder, Inc. | | | I repeated the story to friends at work, speaking like an authority and explaining how the Mafia didn’t exist anymore because it was wiped out back in 1931 on the day that Salvatore Maranzano, the Boss of Bosses, the "capo de tutti capo," was murdered in his Park Avenue office. |
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| | In 850 BC the Carthaginians established trading ports in the west of Sicily at Palermo, Solunto and Mozia.Over the centuries most of the powers of the Mediterranean have laid some claim to parts or all of Sicily.Roy Willis an emeritus Professor of History from UC Davis will follow the threads through this fascinating tapestry. | | | The Greeks who colonized Sicily from 735 BC to 413 left behind many great buildings, both civil and religious that are among the finest examples in Magna Graecia.Margaret Miles (UC Irvine) will help us discover these treasures.She will also present examples of other art forms that flourished in Sicily. | | | George Hammond (San Francisco attorney and raconteur) will present The Trial of Plato in Syracuse. |
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| | L.V. Mott: The Sicilian Vespers |
| | The War of the Sicilian Vespers (1282 – 1302) | | | Origins of the War of the Sicilian Vespers | | | The War of the Sicilian Vespers involved virtually every Mediterranean and European country in a smoldering conflict that spanned twenty years. |
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| | After the initial violence the Sicilians appeal for help to the Spanish kingdom of Aragon whose ruler, Peter III, has a claim to the Sicilian throne through his marriage to the daughter of Manfred. | | | The Sicilians refuse to accept a peace agreed by the other participants, in 1295, which would return their island to the Angevins. | | | Sicilian resentment against the new Angevin dynasty breaks out suddenly in the uprising of 1282 known as the Sicilian Vespers. |
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| | Vespers: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library |
| | This was not a performance decision taken lightly by... | | | Auden's "Vespers": A Christian Refutation of Utopian Dreams of Ultimate Fulfillment | | | VESPERS ves p rz Lat.,=evening, in the Christian Church, principal evening office. |
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| | The results of this revolt were considerable, as it proved the death blow to all the projects for the domination of the East formed by Charles of Anjou. | | | It was only when Charles of Anjou appeared before Messina with all his troops that the Sicilian nobles called to their aid King Pedro III of Aragon, and the other towns only approved this action when it seemed to them impossible to resist Charles of Anjou. | | | Charles of Anjou, Count of Provence and brother of St. Louis, had received from Urban IV the crown of the Two Sicilies which had been taken from the Hohenstaufens. |
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| | Ragusa, Sicily - History, Cuisine, and Tourism |
| | The ancient city, which used to be known as Ragusa Ibla, was founded by indigenous Sicilians. | | | The city of Ragusa is actually two cities that were combined in 1926. | | | In 1286, following rule by the Swabians and the French, as well as the War of the Sicilian Vespers, Ragusa was united with Modica to form the County of Modica. |
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| | Chapter Sibyl's Books <i>to</i> Siegfried of S by Brewer's Readers Handbook |
| | Sicilian Vespers (The), the massacre of the French in Sicily, which began at Palermo, March 30, 1282, at the hour of vespers, on Easter Monday. | | | The Sicilian is don Pèdre, who has a Greek slave named Isidore. | | | This wholesale slaughter was provoked by the brutal conduct of Charles d’Anjou (the governor) and his soldiers towards the islanders. |
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| | *Ø* Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine Book of Days March 30 Janus, Salus and Concordia, Paul Verlaine, ... |
| | The legend of the Sicilian Vespers took on a new significance in the mid-19th Century as a catchcry for Italian nationalism in the lead-up towards Italian state reunification. | | | The French, rushing to avenge their comrade, were attacked and killed by the crowd. | | | Another version has it that a group of French officials joined the native Sicilians at vespers that day, despite the antipathy of the locals. |
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| | The local Sicilian leaders who emerged in the aftermath of the Sicilian Vespers realized that their period of freedom would be brief and that the vengence of Charles I's forces would be terrible unless they were able to attract a powerful foreign champion. | | | They offered sovereignty of the island to Peter III, King of Aragon, based upon the claim to the throne that Peter had already asserted by reason of his marriage to Manfred's daughter Constance. | | | On Easter Sunday 1282, as Charles was preparing for a new military expedition to Greece, the resentment of the Sicilians against their arrogant Angevin French occupiers boiled over in Palermo. |
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| | The Decline and Fall of Medieval Sicily : Politics, Religion, and Economy in the Reign of Frederick III, 1296-1337 by ... |
| | Placing itself between those who blame the foreigners and those who blame the Sicilians themselves, it shows that an entire nexus of factors and influences were at work in unravelling Sicilian life. | | | He assumed that his reader knew about the earlier Norman conquest, and the Vespers war and Angevin antagonism to Catalan rule. | | | It also demonstrates that these forces can be seen best in the forty years that followed Sicily's liberation from foreign control in the bloody war of the "Sicilian Vespers." |
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| | Find in a Library: History of the war of the Sicilian vespers. |
| | History of the war of the Sicilian vespers. | | | Find in a Library: History of the war of the Sicilian vespers. | | | To find this item in a library, enter a postal code, state, province, or country in the field above. |
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| | The Sicilian Vespers - Verdi |
| | The work also has been presented under the title of "Giovanna di Guzman." The libretto is by Scribe and deals with the massacre of the French invaders of Sicily, at vespers, on Easter Monday, 1282. | | | The plot turns upon his efforts to rescue her. | | | The principal characters are Guy de Montford, French Viceroy, baritone; Arrigo, a Sicilian officer, tenor; Duchess Hélène, a prisoner, soprano; Giovanni di Procida, a native conspirator, bass. |
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| | History Today: The educational archive of articles, news and study aids for teachers, students and enthusiasts - ... |
| | The revolt of the Sicilian Vespers, which began in Palermo on March 30th, 1282, was an event the repercussions of which were felt throughout the Mediterranean for decades after the rebellion. | | | In his famous book The Sicilian Vespers, explains David Abulafia in this article, (first published in 1958 and shortly to be reissued by Cambridge University Press), Sir Steven Runciman wrote 'The massacre was one of those events in history which altered the fate of nations and of world-wide institutions. | | | The Byzantine emperor Michael VIlI Palaiologos remained securely on the throne he had won in 1261, and was saved by the action of Sicilian rebels from the need to defend Constantinople against the fleets of Charles of Anjou and... |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Vesper |
| | Vespers (Latin vesperae, “of the evening”), part of the daily series of nonsacramental services of prayer in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern... | | | Sicilian Vespers, name given to the massacre, signaled to begin by the first stroke of the vesper bell, of the French in Sicily on Easter Monday,... | | | Exclusively for MSN Encarta Premium Subscribers--quickly search thousands of articles from magazines such as Time, Newsweek, The Atlantic Monthly, and Smithsonian. |
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| | It is as superficial to claim someone must be a believer, solely on the basis of having composed religious works in the employ of the Church, as it is to claim that a crime novelist must be a criminal. | | | He angered the clergy with the anti-Catholic notes in his 1855 Sicilian Vespers. | | | Verdi dominated the Italian musical scene for 50 years with 28 operas, including Nabucco (Nebuchadnezzar), Macbeth, Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, La Traviata, The Sicilian Vespers (Les Vêpres Siciliennes), Simon Boccanegra, A Masked Ball (Un Ballo in Maschera), The Power of Destiny (La Forza del Destino), Don Carlos, Aïda, Otello and Falstaff. |
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| | The Sicilian puppets differ from other marionettes in the plays presented, in their technique, their figurative style, their décor and their speech. | | | However, the repertory of the puppeteers also includes other stories of chivalry, historical events such as Roger the Norman Conquers Sicily, The Sicilian Vespers, The Story of Victor Emanuel and Garibaldi and a number of Shakespearean subjects such as Romeo and Juliet, Othello and Macbeth. | | | This has not yet happened in Sicily and thus the traditional audience of the opera dei pupi has been replaced by tourists and the middle classes in search of local colour. |
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| | Italy Sicilian Vespers - decanter.com - the route to all good wine |
| | The fact that the Gambero Rosso Guide, Italy's equivalent to Gault Millaut, voted Planeta Producer of the Year for 1999 is significant not only because it is Sicilian but also because Planeta only brought out its first wines in 1994. | | | Estates that only began production well into the 1990s like Ceuso, Palari, Planeta and Santa Anastasia are already being quoted among the country's new elite. | | | Antonio Melia currently ages his Ceuso in the converted garage of his home in the suburbs of Alcamo, but he will soon be moving out and when all the new vineyards come on line he will be making 100,000 bottles; not huge by Sicilian standards, but not to be sniffed at. |
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| | Lawrence V. Mott Home Page |
| | Sea Power in the Medieval Mediterranean: The Catalan-Aragonese Fleet in the War of the Sicilian Vespers. | | | Iberian naval and maritime history during the High Middle Ages, with particular focus on the War of the Sicilian Vespers. | | | “Trade as a weapon during the War of the Sicilian Vespers.” Medieval Encounters Special Edition 9.2/3 (2004): 236-243. |
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| | That is the story of the "Sicilian Vespers", the tale of a variation that had appeared like a comet and gone down in a blaze. | | | Even at this early age Fischer is considered a great expert in the Sicilian Defence. | | | His Yugoslav opponent is baffled: is the lad trying to trick him with some new analysis, or is he simply desperate? |
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| | It was the main stronghold of Peter of Aragon during the War of the Sicilian Vespers, and in 1305, Frederick II of Aragon chose it as his summer residence. | | | The town was founded in Byzantine fimes in a territory already settled by the Sicels, and it became important in the 13th and 14th centuries. | | | It was populated in waves of Greek, Roman, and Lombard immigrants, who until the 16th century spoke three distinct dialects and (until 1916) had three separate cathedrals (each in its own quarter of the town). |
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| | During the uprising that he himself had incited in Sicily, in March 1282, and which came to be known as the Sicilian Vespers because it had started in Palermo with the ringing of the bells for vespers, his Sicilian rival was defeated and the Empire breathed once more. | | | Not long afterwards, the man who had restored the Empire was to die, leaving the throne to his son, | | | Yet, this time again, the diplomatic genius of Michael VIII saved the day. |
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| | During the War of the Sicilian Vespers, it was burned down by Frederick II of Aragon for remaining faithful to the Angevins. | | | The present town dates from 1094 when Roger I founded a Benedictine Abbey here. |
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| | The area in front of the building was the scene, in 1282, of an uprising by the citizens of Palermo against their French Angevin rulers (the so-called "Sicilian Vespers"). | | | Palermo, S. Spirito (Church of the "sicilian vespers") | | | The style of the building reflects the austere simplicity of early Anglo-Norman Cistercian churches. |
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| | tingilinde: iraq and the sicilian vespers |
| | Listed below are links to weblogs that reference iraq and the sicilian vespers: | | | Vietnam clearly isn't one of them (although divisions in the home front could be if the current trajectory continues)... | | | What I keep coming to is the Sicilian Vespers. |
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| | From Internet Movie Database: Top detective Lou Torrey (Charles Bronson) is transferred to Los Angeles and uncovers a plot by a Sicilian mafioso to use Vietnam veterans to murder all his enemies in a rerun of the "Sicilian Vespers" when the previous generation of Sicilian mafiosi were all killed on a single day. | | | Torrey gets various clues that something big is about to happen but will he discover what is planned before the big day? |
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| | University of Michigan Library Name Resolver Service |
| | Note: Available for non-commercial, internal use by students, staff, and faculty at the University of Michigan for academic and research purposes only. | | | Note: Transcribed from : The Sicilian Vespers : An Historical Tragedy. |
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