Word: sicilianism
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Naples, though its slum alleys are still noisome and laundry festoons every tenement, no longer seems such a violent affront to its breathtaking setting. To the land of the Fra Angelicos and hand-painted Sicilian donkey carts has come the neon glare of modern living-billboards, Life Savers, Esso stations, Hopalong Cassidy, even a little TV. Venetian canals boast traffic lights, and only a lusty gondolier could raise his tenor above the gaseous snarl of motoscafi...
...Giovanni Verga, the Sicilian novelist and playwright, is surely the greatest writer of Italian fiction after Manzoni," said D. H. Lawrence. Between the two,'born half a century apart, runs the great divide of 19th century European literature, on the one side romanticism, on the other realism. If Manzoni is Italy's Hugo, Verga is its Flaubert, and its Zola too. Now the finest of Verga's novels, I Malavoglia, is introduced to U.S. readers as The House by the Medlar Tree. The Malavoglia are a family of boatmen. Verga's is the plain tale...
...town master, Antonello da Messina. It was a limited display, for Antonello's known works are few. But the show did include 15 religious paintings and portraits known to be from Antonello's own hand, plus ten more pictures hopefully attributed to him, and 100 by his Sicilian contemporaries and followers. The Antonellos were enough to demonstrate that he had brought a rich new glow to Renaissance painting...
When George White, a moon-faced Californian of 44, confides in a Turkish floozy, a member of the Sicilian Mafia or a Marseille Chinese that he is in the market for dope, his listeners somehow seem to trust him, and lead him right to the big drug suppliers. Using this snare in two decades of prowling the world from Butte to Bahrein, U.S. Narcotics Agent White has got the evidence that has put thousands of peddlers behind bars. His wartime hitch as a lieutenant colonel in the Office of Strategic Services was no less interesting. At one point he stepped...
...traveled on a 720-ton ex-Italian minelayer, now the Yugoslav training ship Galeb (Seagull). The royal welcome began in the Sicilian Channel, where the British destroyers Chieftain and Chevron steamed up to convoy the dictator. At Gibraltar three more British destroyers and three aircraft carriers joined up, cannon booming, and 60 planes roared past in a "flyover" (three crashed, killing four officers...