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Posted on July 21st, 2008Perché L’ALTRA Sicilia. In Italian.
Garibaldi, Italian Unification and Sicily – by S. Ben Piazza
Posted on June 11th, 2008
Sicilian history is full of many interesting events and personalities over the past many centuries and millennia, going back to the deeds of the Sikanian king Kokalous, followed many centuries later by Archimedes, Aeschilus, Epicarmus, Al Idrisi, FrederickII and many, many more who succeeded one after another and who, in their way, impacted, for better or worse, on the future of this the largest of the Mediterranean islands.
Another individual who occupies similar position in the history of Sicily, although, albeit, in a more perverse way is the person of Giuseppe Garibaldi and the disastrous role that he played before, during and after his conquest of Sicily and Southern Italy, ostensibly as an effort to achieve unification of the Italian peninsula under one ruler, namely Victor Emanuel II, King of Sardinia and Piemonte.
Today, if one goes to Sicily and visits any of the towns there, one will hardly find an inhabited center where a street, a square or similar other public area is not dedicated to Garibaldi. And yet, there is more about Garibaldi than it meets the eyes or history, for that matter.
Our region is ”Sicilian” and not ”Sicily”
Posted on May 6th, 2008
Our region is “Sicilian” and not “Sicily”, not only because this is the formal name, but also for a precise historic reason and for a precise institutional relationship which links it to Italy.
The official name cannot be modified not even artificially through its wrong use. Just like Sardinia is called Autonomous Region of Sardinia, equally Sicily must be called only “Regione Siciliana” (Sicilian Region) when referring to the Juridical entity which represents it, on a different note “Sicily Region” (Regione Sicilia) is can be accepted as an expression only when referring to the territory over which the mentioned juridical entity exercises its sovereignity. Read more »
