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This one is equally enjoyable if a little slimmer. This actually makes it quite readable. It has some lighter stories but is a serious book.

This is a very interesting book and has deepened my knowledge of sicily. It is interesting to note that so much of sicilian history is impacted by the broader history of europe. This time contributed so much to sicilian culture--food, language, archit...  Read More

The author has a habit of switching voices and relating personal accounts in the middle of a historical account. More than other books that cover such a vast swath of time, this author succeeds. The detail and depth the writer goes into covers just en...  Read More

Norwich provides the definitive history of the island that played a critical and largely unheralded role in mediterranean civilization. Within the history he presents, the author manages to mention highlights of sicily's cultural heritage that tourist...  Read More

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This also leads to my one quibble with the book while it broadly outlines the history of europe it does not always do a good jo...  Read More


Imagine touring sicily with the most knowledgeable guide available experienced in history politics art literature


I did enjoy reading this book not really an history book with the usual endless and pedantic sequence of names and dates that...  Read More

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    good, most, sicilian, written and excellent.
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  • This product had a total of 321 reviews as of our last analysis date on Aug 18 2022.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Probably the most isuthoitative and wellresearched book on the island and its culture in circulation today


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Sicily is the place where many people of different personality moralcharacter social position origin raceculturereligion did live their mark


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The spectrum covers all the extremes


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I wish he had spent more time on preroman sicily and less time on spanish sicily which has and still is a disaster


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I am a sicilian myself and what make me decide to buy the book was a comment in the introduction on which i totally agree because of their history sicilians have very little if any sense of humor and the prevailing mood is one of a sort of resigned sadness and a feeling of hopelessness mixed with the illusion that somebody else will come and take care of our own problems


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Sicily the ever magic island should be known in every detail


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Of course that means its just narrative and not at all analytic so if youre looking for something academic this isnt it


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    It is a history of a very misunderstood and very important island based on fact not myth

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