SCRAPS OF LIFE by ”-Professore-” Anthony D’Alessandro
May the 12t: the Mother’s Day. For this occasion we have republished a poem by Prof. Anthony D’Alessandro, a Sicilian-American about his sainted Mazzarese mother. The following poem,”Scraps of Life,” was…
Interview Roy Paci
Roy Paci was born in Augusta near Siracusa. He is a trumpeter, song writer, arranger and singer. He started playing in the traditional bands of his region. During the nineties…
The Phoenicians in Sicily
Author of Motya, journalist and broadcaster, Gaia Servadio, takes up the story of the Phoenicians in Sicily, starting with the Roman poet Virgil’s Aeneid and Queen Dido of Tyre. …
Sicily: The Best Kept Secret
By Onat Claypole We met Professor Gaetano Cipolla in March 2011 at an Arba Sicula event on the campus of St. John’s University in Queens, New York. The event…
Fratelli Mancuso – Sicilian Muscians: “The local barber’s shop was our music academy”
Translator’s Note – The Sicilian brothers Enzo and Lorenzo Mancuso, musicians and musicologists, put on a concert in the November of 2009 to open Seville University’s conference dedicated to…
Sicul-English: the National Defense Institute Sicilian Textbooks: a Disservice to Sicily
By Gaetano Cipolla As president and editor of Arba Sicula, a non profit international organization that promotes Sicilian language and culture, I am always looking for materials that can help…
A Dream Realized: A Modern Grammar of Sicilian Is Now Available
One of the most important objectives of Arba Sicula, indeed the reason for which it was founded, has finally become a reality. A comprehensive and interactive Grammar of the…
Interview with Francesca V. Mignosa – ‘My Sicily: Life in the Cusp of the Mediterranean Sea’
The prestigious Italian Literary Award ‘Sicilia Mondo 2013’ was recently presented to the Sicilian – American Francesca V. Mignosa for her writing and also for her important role as…
An Interview with Franco Turdo – Part #1
With the internet, Sicilian-Americans in today’s world may be a part of their “homeland” in real time; never missing the banter of local political debates, the celebrations and religious processions,…
Maricchia – A Film by Franco Turdo
It is not often that an entire village – rather an entire region – pulls together to fulfill a life-long dream of a single individual. But in…