sicilian dialect
31Salvatore Lo Piccolo — (born in Palermo, July 20, 1942), also known as the Baron ( il Barone ), is a Sicilian mafioso and one of the most powerful bosses of Palermo, Sicily. Lo Piccolo rose through the ranks of the Palermo mafia throughout the 1980s and he became the… …
32La Terra trema — Infobox Film name = La Terra trema image size = caption = Italian theatrical poster director = Luchino Visconti producer = Salvo D Angelo writer = Story: Giovanni Verga Screenplay: Antonio Pietrangeli Luchino Visconti narrator = Luchino Visconti… …
33Paolo LiCastri — (June 5, 1935 Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily ndash; June 13, 1979 Flatlands, Brooklyn ) was a made man, or Man of Honor who worked under Carlo Gambino and Carmine Galante. BiographyPaolo LiCastri was smuggled into the country by Carlo Gambino s… …
34Doppio Petto — is a short film written and directed by Giuseppe Ferlito. It is filmed in Ferlito s native town of Burgio. The cast is made up of citizens of Burgio and the nearby town of Villafranca Sicula. The technicians of the film all come from the Cinema… …
35di|a|lect — «DY uh lehkt», noun, adjective. –n. 1. a form of speech spoken in a certain district or by a certain group of people: »The Scottish dialect of English has many words and pronunciations that are not used in Standard English. A dialect of French is …
36Italian folk music — has a deep and complex history. National unification came quite late to the Italian peninsula, so its many hundreds of separate cultures remained un homogenized until quite recently compared to many other European countries. Moreover, Italian… …
37Giovanni Meli — Giovanni Meli † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Giovanni Meli Sicilian poet, b. at Palermo, 4 March, 1740, d. 20 Dec., 1815. He was the son of a goldsmith of Spanish origin, and received his first education from the Jesuits. He afterwards… …
38Nicosia, Sicily — Nicosia   Comune   Comune di Nicosia …
39List of Italian language poets — Poets who wrote in Italian (or Italian dialects): A *Antonio Abati *Luigi Alamanni *Aleardo Aleardi *Dante Alighieri *Cecco Angiolieri *Gabriele D Annunzio *Ludovico Ariosto *Francis of Assisi B *Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli (Roman dialect)… …
40Malta — /mawl teuh/, n. 1. an island in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Africa. 95 sq. mi. (246 sq. km). 2. a former British colony consisting of this island and two small adjacent islands: now an independent sovereign state and a member of the… …
