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Art --- Palermo (Italy) --- Description

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Sociology, Urban --- Palermo (Italy)

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The Companion to Medieval Palermo offers a panorama of the history of Medieval Palermo from the sixth to the fifteenth century. Often described by contrast with the communal reality of Medieval Italy as submitted to a royal (external) authority, the city is here given back its density and creativity. Important themes such as artistic and literary productions, religious changes or political autonomy are thus explored anew. Some fields recently investigated are the object of particular scrutiny: the history of the Jews, Byzantine or Islamic Palermo are among them. Contributors are Annliese Nef, Vivien Prigent, Alessandra Bagnera, Mirella Cassarino, Rosi Di Liberto, Elena Pezzini, Henri Bresc, Igor Mineo, Laura Sciascia, Gian Luca Borghese, Sulamith Brodbeck, Benoît Grévin, Giuseppe Mandalà, and Fabrizio Titone.

Palermo (Italy) --- History

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To reform or to love ? This is the dilemna of those who find men's suffering unbearable. When Aldous Huxley called Danilo Dolci "the ideal twentieth-century saint" he singled out a man whose knowledge makes him effective and whose magnificent, bursting humanity frees him from those hatreds which smoulder in many a so-called humanitarian's breast. Danilo (he is known simply as this throughout Italy) was a qualified architect in the busy north. He arrived in the bitter, destitute, beautiful island of Sicily where half the population live without their daily bread - and without hope. Crime is part of the natural order of things : the Sicilian traditions of honour and revenge - developed to a fine art by the mafia - are substitutes for social thought or action. In some communities eight out of ten male adults have spent more than a year in prison. "When the children cry, we steal for them." This book contains the verbatim stories of a cross-section of these people, the poor, the dispossessed, the criminal. Unemployment is the curse of Sicily and the problem was considered insoluble. But in these accounts of life without work and on the strenght of what Dolci has already achieved there is overwhelming justification for the demand of 'work, not charity'. Until Danilo went among them their voice was not heard : he has guven them a voice of thunder ! And when all the work performed in Sicily under Danilo's inspiration comes to be reckoned, these voices from the depths will still shout out their message to humanity. For all their patos, anger, comedy and seriousness, these people have lacked up to now the crowning dignity of labour. When Danilo achieves this on their behalf he will take this place among the greatest and the most humble of our age. It is a grave matter that in Europe today a man should dare - that he should have to dare - to ask "work, not charity".

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