Sicily: Three Thousand Years of Human History - Sandra Benjamin

Category: Adults, History, Political
Language: English
Keywords: Art Culture Sociology

Written by Sandra Benjamin
Read by Fred Filbrich
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 16 hrs and 32 mins
Publisher: 2012 Steerforth Press LLC

Tourists, armchair travelers, and historians will all delight in this fluid narrative that can be read straight through, dipped into over time, or used as a reference guide to each period in Sicily’s fascinating tale.

Emigration of people from Sicily often overshadows the importance of the people who immigrated to the island through the centuries. These have included several who became Sicily’s rulers, along with Jews, Ligurians, and Albanians. Greeks, Romans, Vandals, Goths, Byzantines, Muslims, Normans, Hohenstaufens, Spaniards, Bourbons, the Savoy Kingdom of Italy and the modern era have all held sway, and left lasting influences on the island’s culture and architecture. Sicily’s character has also been determined by what passed it by: events that affected Europe generally, namely the Crusades and Columbus’s discovery of the Americas, remarkably had little influence on Italy’s most famous island.

A very detailed, in-depth look at this small island.