Luigi Pirandello Luigi Pirandello was born on June 28, 1867 in Caos, a small hamlet in Girgenti (now Agrigento), Sicily. He studied Phil...

Roger I of Sicily at the Battle of Cerami in 1063  by Prosper Lafaye In memory of Roger I of Altavilla (1031 — 22 June 1101), Grand Count of...

Ruggero I di Sicilia Dextera Domini fecit virtutem. Dextera Domini exaltavit me. (The right hand of God gave me courage. The right hand of G...

While visiting the Italian American Museum yesterday I stumbled across an amazing statue of the Madonna del Soccorso di Sciacca . Called t...

Graziella , by Jules-Joseph Lefebvre For anyone interested in his or her Southern Italian heritage I highly recommend a visit to the  Metrop...

I'm currently reading The Temptation to Exist by E.M. Cioran and thought I would share some excerpts. On a Winded Civilization “‘If...

We the people of Southern Italy stand united and proclaim our right to self-determination. The South’s seven regions— Abruzzo, Basilicata, C...

Apollo smiled this sunny Sunday afternoon on the sons and daughters of the South as we celebrated the 275th anniversary of the Battle of ...

Charles of Bourbon,  Palazzo Reale, Napoli May 25th marks the anniversary of the Battle of Bitonto (1734), the key engagement between ...

Francesco II di Borbone Since the very first days of Garibaldi’s dictatorship and for the subsequent years, the rapid conquest of the ...

Portrait head of Parmenides discovered at Castellammare della Bruca, Salerno Born in the latter half of the sixth century BC in the Greek ci...