Andrea Camilleri is always at or near the top of Italy's weekly book sales charts - and sometimes even takes several rankings at once. His books sell by the millions in this country where literary ...

Tight-lipped Tornatore is describing “Baaria” as “a very funny comedy with a melancholy touch.” Tale is understood to revolve around a couple in the Sicilian village between the 1930s and the 1970s, ...

ROME (Reuters) - Actor and director Luigi Lo Cascio says he "stripped the flesh" from Shakespeare's great tragedy Othello for his new version, with a pared-down cast and a white-skinned Moor speaking ...

MILAN (AP) — The death Friday of Salvatore “Toto” Riina, the long-time “boss of bosses” of the Sicilian Mafia, puts the spotlight back on Cosa Nostra, which waged a bloody campaign in the 1980s and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This linguistic study investigates the usage of the Sicilian language in three generations of Sicilians living in Sicily and abroad. Findings ...

Directed by Roman Paska and written by Paska and the American actor-director, this simple, unpretentious documentary has international television potential. By Natasha Senjanovic, The Associated Press ...

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Franco-Tunisian maven Tarak Ben Ammar’s Quinta Communications, which is co-producing, will be selling “Baaria” on the Croisette. “Baaria” is Sicilian dialect for Tornatore’s native Bagheria, a suburb ...