Tommaso Aniello   by Onofrio Palumbo "The Revolution, like Saturn, devours it's children" – Georg Buchner The Revolt of Nap...

Il Pescatore  at the Museo Civico in the Maschio Angioino, Napoli By Giovanni di Napoli A year before his death the great Neapolitan ...

One of many mushrooms we discovered on our "hunt" WARNING: Do NOT forage for mushrooms without expert supervision. Some mushrooms ...

Portrait bust of Giuseppe Garibaldi (left) and Antonio Meucci monument July 4, 2009 marks the 102   anniversary of the day Antonio Meucci’s ...

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...