This isn’t weird, but probably the most dangerous thing I’ve done was driving by myself from Messina, Sicily, to Palermo, over the Peloritani Mountains the other side of the Sicily and back. This was in the mid-eighties, and I’d gone to Sicily to do more research on my historical...
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aIn Sicily is a town called Messina, which is the scene of a curious storm in a teacup that raged several hundred years ago.[translate] aSecondly, and by consequence, the accelerating demise of traditional rural life has distanced individuals from farm work and, by the same token, substantial...
Messina’s coastline and the potential origin of the Giacoppo family © Silvia Marchetti / Lonely Planet The rise to the White House of Dr Jill Jacobs Biden, the first Italian-American first lady in US history, has awakened from its slumber a normally quiet and offbeat corner ofSicilyrarely...
Aim Aims of the present paper are to ascertain WS prevalence and expression in a district of North-eastern Sicily, i.e. a geographic area where consanguineous unions are not very unusual. Materials and methods Prevalence rates of WS in the Messina district were calculated by taking into ...
And then there is the almost incredible story of Pietro Rombulo of Messina, an Italian who spent most of his life in Ethiopia in the early fifteenth century, a period that one scholar has dubbed theEthiopian Age of exploration. Rombulo spent more than a decade in the diplomatic service of...