Word: sicilianism
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Aristotle, commissioned for 500 florins (an estimated $7.800) by a Sicilian nobleman in 1652, was sold by Joseph Duveen in 1928 to the Ericksons for $750,000. In 1929, when Erickson was in need of funds, he let Duveen have it back for $500,000, but in 1936 repurchased...
FENWAY: Still holding forth is Michelangelo Antonioni's lengthy but carefully turned tale of aristocratic decadence at a Sicilian party, L'Avventura...
Fenway: L'AVVENTURA, the longwinded jewel of Italian director Michelangelo Antonini, unwinds the story of decadent Romans on a Sicilian Island and their search for one of their party who is missing. As good or better than La Dolce Vita...
Ippolita, by Alberto Denti di Pirajno. Highly reminiscent of The Leopard and written, as was that excellent novel, by an aging Sicilian duke, Ippolita draws an evocative portrait of semifeudal Italian society amid the first revolutionary stirrings in the early 19th century...
Ippolita, by Alberto Denti di Pirajino. Highly reminiscent of The Leopard and written, as was that excellent novel, by an aging Sicilian duke, Ippolita draws an evocative portrait of semifeudal Italian society amid the first revolutionary stirrings in the early 19th century. The author depicts princes, peasants and his skinflint heroine with melodramatic gusto; but his most exact and memorable character is the past itself...