Word: sicilianism
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...believe art lurked only in crannies of museums and churches. B.B., even in his old age, went through difficult Sicilian roads to get to a Greek temple. He travelled in Calbria, to North Africa, to minor Sicilian villages...
Italy, his chosen home, held more than merely visual delights for him. Despite his occasional arch references to Italy's modernization, he makes clear how much he understands and admires the Italian character, especially its Sicilian variant...
...ancient steam-driven train from Palermo chugged out of the Sicilian hill town of Zucco-Montelepre one night last week, four masked men emerged from the shadows and hopped aboard the mail car. Guns drawn, they warned the lone mail clerk not to move or they would kill him. Ripping open mail sacks, they collected $19,000, then jumped from the train, leaving the clerk trussed up on the floor. The stationmaster back in Zucco-Montelepre's rickety railroad station, which is eerily lit by flickering oil lamps, allowed as how he had seen the men before the holdup...
...hear whom they are married to, if anyone. So is a British petty officer named William, whose German wife Olga claimed she had taken a vow of chastity and refused to have sexual intercourse with him, but nevertheless presented him with a child. So is Nick, a Manhattan Sicilian, who claims the Mafia frightened him into marrying 14-year-old Tonina. Their marital fates-and those of many other Roman Catholics throughout the world-are being decided by Rome's Sacred Rota, one of Christendom's oldest and least understood courts...
...Leopard, by Giuseppe di Lampedusa. The story of the deterioration of Sicilian nobility in the 19th century becomes, in the author's wry, melancholy prose, an elegy to the aristocratic spirit...