The present volume, which has a moving image by Giulia Di Filippi on the cover and which the author dedicated to his wife Florence, is number 27 in the "Sicilian Studies" series, published by Legas and directed by Gaetano Cipolla.
This is a revised and expanded edition of the volume published with a slightly different title in 2005. Following the introduction, the book is divided in two parts: the first part contains eight chapters regarding questions dealing with the characteristics, the traditions, the history and the language of the Sicilian people; the second offers nine studies on representative Sicilian poets and writers.
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