The Long View
21 March 2012 | Hidden City Daily
From the once capital of Sicily, 882 years in the shadows, a rumination on an immutable law—all cities lose population.
Posts tagged with “Sicily”
Strait Talk
28 February 2008 | Philadelphia City Paper
Sicilians appear as recalcitrant as the soil itself. “Sleep,” says the book’s subject, Don Fabrizio, to a bureaucrat from the north, “my dear Chevalley, sleep, that is what Sicilians want, and they will always hate anyone who tries to wake them, even in order to bring them the most wonderful of gifts.”