However, no school of painting formed after his death, with the exception of the Sicilian Marco Costanzo.

Here Domenico attended primary school and learned San Piertro Vernotico's dialect, which belongs to the linguistic area of Lecce's dialect, which is similar to Sicilian.

There, too, Lysias is said to have commenced his studies in rhetoric — doubtless under a master of the Sicilian school possibly, as tradition said, under Tisias, the pupil of Corax, whose name is associated with the first attempt to formulate rhetoric as an art.

Far from being a derivative school of poetry that mimicked its French and Sicilian poetic ancestors, Stilnovismo brought an originality to and completely transformed the poetry of courtly love in that: 1 ) It was an urban poetry of the Tuscan commune, not of an aristocratic court.

Guido delle Colonne of Messina, one of the vernacular poets of the Sicilian school, composed the Historia destructionis Troiae.

To the Sicilian school belonged Enzio, king of Sardinia, Pietro della Vigna, Inghilfredi, Guido and Odo delle Colonne, Jacopo d ' Aquino, Ruggieri Apugliese, Giacomo da Lentini, Arrigo Testa, and others.

The poems of the Sicilian school were written in the first known standard Italian.

The initial boost given by the Sicilian poets from the Svevs ' court, the first to use a standardised vernacular to make art poetry will be passed on to many others: and all of them, not just the pedantic imitators of the Siculo-Tuscan school ( such as Bonagiunta Orbicciani ) but also Guinizzelli, the poets of Dolce Stil Novo and more widely all writers of verse, will have to deal, though by different degrees, with the Sicilian models, so that some peculiarities will be assimilated into standard usage of Italian poetry.

The standard of the Sicilian school combines many traits typical of the Sicilian, Latin, Provençal and to a lesser, but not negligible extent, Apulian and certain southern dialects.

– 2 November 1687 ), minor Spanish dramatist of the school of Calderón, was the son of a Portuguese mother and a Sicilian merchant of Greek parentage who came to Madrid some time before 1631.

When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.

Her voice was ripe and full and her teeth flashed again in Sicilian brilliance before the warm curved lips met and her mouth settled in repose.

O'Banion was born in poverty, the son of an immigrant Irish plasterer, in the North Side's Little Hell, close by the Sicilian quarter and Death Corner.

Alexander II was a king of Epirus, and the son of Pyrrhus and Lanassa, the daughter of the Sicilian tyrant Agathocles.

During the plantation era, Diego Garcia was home to large herds of Sicilian Donkeys ( Equus asinus ), dozens of horses ( Equus caballus ), hundreds of dogs ( Canis familiaris ) and house cats ( Felis catus ).

The Trojan Women for example is a powerfully disturbing play on the theme of war's horrors, apparently critical of Athenian imperialism ( it was composed in the aftermath of the Melian massacre and during the preparations for the Sicilian Expedition ) yet it features the comic exchange between Menelaus and Hecuba quoted above and the chorus considers Athens, the " blessed land of Theus ", to be a desirable refugesuch complexity and ambiguity are typical both of his ' patriotic ' and ' anti-war ' plays.

Capra recalled that he " hated being a peasant, being a scrounging new kid trapped in the Sicilian ghetto of Los Angeles ... All I had was cockiness — and let me tell you that gets you a long way.

Working as both screenwriter and assistant director on Rossellini ’ s Paisà ( Paisan ) in 1946, Fellini was entrusted to film the Sicilian scenes in Maiori.

Mayol was already an experienced free diver when he met the Sicilian Enzo Maiorca

The tournament was unusual as each game was required to play a Sicilian Defence, since Polugaevsky was considered the all-time authority on the opening.

It was required that each game begin with the Sicilian Defense.

He bigamously married Adelaide del Vasto, regent of Sicily, in 1113, but was convinced to divorce her as well in 1117 ; Adelaide's son from her first marriage, Roger II of Sicily, never forgave Jerusalem, and for decades withheld much-needed Sicilian naval support.

Roger returned to Europe after the Sicilian Vespers in 1282, and was replaced by Odo Poilechien.

During the Sicilian war against Sextus Pompeius in 36, Maecenas was sent back to Rome, and was entrusted with supreme administrative control in the city and in Italy.

Although the full story was described by Ovid, it was also mentioned by Philoxenus and Theocritus, and in Valerius Flaccus ' version of Argonautica, among the themes painted on the Argos, " Cyclops from the Sicilian shore calls Galatea back.

In 1282, Charles was overthrown in the violent massacre known as the Sicilian Vespers.

The Athenian army, attempting to withdraw overland to other, more friendly Sicilian cities, was divided and defeated ; the entire Athenian fleet was destroyed, and virtually the entire Athenian army was sold off into slavery.

The suspension was followed by excommunication and threats of deposition, as deeper rifts appeared – Frederick II's control of the Sicilian Church, his feudal obligations to the Pope, even his continued presence in Sicily.

* Socrate Polara ( 1800 – 1860 ) ( Italy ), founded the first dedicated ophthalmology clinic in Sicily in 1829 entirely as a philanthropic endeavor ; later appointed as the first director of the ophthalmology department at the Grand Hospital of Palermo, Sicily ( Italy ) in 1831 after the Sicilian government became convinced of the importance of state support for the specialization.

Simonides later introduced his nephew to ruling families in Thessaly and to the Sicilian tyrant, Hieron of Syracuse, whose glittering court attracted artists of the calibre of Pindar and Aeschylus.

the medieval Sardinian Gamurra later become Barracelli, the Sicilian Vendicatori and the Beati Paoli ), a type of early vigilante organization, which became extremely powerful in Westphalian Germany during the 15th century.

Much later in life, he sees his only son fall in love with a lovely Shepherd's daughter — who is, in fact, a Sicilian princess.

The next man called Frederick to occupy the Sicilian throne was dubbed by later generations of historians as Frederick III: Frederick III the Simple, though he himself did not use an ordinal.

There is confusion also about his place of birth, " Megara ", which Plato for example understood to be Megara Hyblaea in Sicily, while a scholiast on Plato cites Didymus for the rival theory that the poet was born in a Megara in Attica, and ventures the opinion that Theognis might have later migrated to the Sicilian Megara ( a similar theory had assigned an Attic birthplace to the Spartan poet Tyrtaeus ).

Some of Joanna's courtiers and servants were tortured and later executed including her Sicilian governess Philippa the Catanian and the latter's family.

Four days later, a conspiracy against the new king was uncovered, and many of the leading Sicilian political figures were arrested and sent to prison in Germany, including William and his family.

" Frederick the Simple " is often confused with an earlier Sicilian monarch, Frederick II, who chose to call himself " Frederick III ", even though he was actually only the second King Frederick to occupy the Sicilian throne, as also this Frederick has been dubbed by later generations of genealogists and historians as Frederick III.

With the growth of Italian immigration came the growth in the influence of the Roman Catholic Church such that the Parish of Our Lady, Help of Christians, was founded in the downtown area of St. Louis in 1900 to serve primarily recent Sicilian immigrants, while the Parish of St. Ambrose was founded in what later came to be known as the Hill in 1903 to serve primarily the recent northern Italian immigrants.

Claudia Cardinale also featured in a minor role ( a chaste, black-clad Sicilian girl, almost held prisoner at home by her overbearing brother, played by Tiberio Murgia ), although she would later rise to fame for other work.

Nonetheless, some leading players, such as Emanuel Lasker ( World Champion from 1894 to 1921 ), Frank Marshall, Savielly Tartakower, and Aron Nimzowitsch, and later Max Euwe ( World Champion from 1935 to 1937 ) played the Sicilian.

In March 2000, Roma chairman Franco Sensi led a holding company to purchase Palermo and Sergio D ' Antoni became the President of Palermo and Palermo were promoted to Serie B one year later after a dramatic final week of the season, with Palermo coming back from behind to take first place from league-toppers Sicilian rivals Messina.

Originally delivered at the Sicilian court of Emperor Frederick II during the 13th century of the Middle Ages, the lyrical form was later commanded by Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, and leading Renaissance writers such as Spenser ( the marriage hymn in his Epithalamion ).

About 330 B. C Aristotle proposed that everything is made up of a mixture of one or more of four " roots " ( originally put forth by the Sicilian philosopher Empedocles ), but later renamed elements by Plato.

He also composed songs for two plays by Nahum Tate ( later the librettist of Dido and Aeneas ), The Sicilian Usurper ( 1680 ) and Cuckold-Haven ( 1685 ).

He did not however at this time accomplish his purpose, and it was not till a later period that, after repeated expeditions against the neighbouring Sicilian cities, Enna also was betrayed into his hands.

The proposal was not taken up by the parliamentary majority ; and in 1961 the Christian Democrat party ( DC – Democrazia Cristiana ) in the Senate and Sicilian politicians such as Bernardo Mattarella and Giovanni Gioia ( both later accused of links with the Mafia ) dismissed the proposal as useless.

He first made a study of the flora of Sicily, publishing in 1838 Flora panormitana ( Palermo ); he also dealt with the Sicilian flora in later works.

Merlo later became involved in the Chicago chapter of Unione Siciliana, a national organization dedicated to assisting Sicilian immigrants in America.

Although Merlo later transformed the Unione into a front for organized crime, he reportedly did have a genuine concern for the welfare of the Sicilian residents of Chicago's Little Italy.

In later matches against computers he opted for 1 ... e5 or 1 ... c5, the sharp Sicilian Defence, Kasparov's usual choice against human opponents.

1 ... c5 is often played by devotees of the Sicilian Defence, into which the game often transposes, either immediately after 2. e4 or at a later point.