I downloaded a couple of my favorite authors on my notebook to read while I am here. Including of course, Donna Leon, with Commissorio Brunetti. Steffen told me of one like her who is Italian, Andrea Camilleri. His policeman is Montalbano.
I am also reading, The Leopard, by G. di Lampadusa which is about Sicily around 1860 when a revolution led by a guy named Garibaldi ended the kingdom and created what appears to have become a police state.
It seems to have been very bad for Sicily from what I have read so far. In a history source on the web I read that Garibaldi might not have succeeded, were it not for the help of the British. The British had a monopoly on sulfur mining and apparantly that was motivation to assist the "rebels." Had they not prevented the Italian navy from attacking Garibaldi's ships, maybe the revolt would have failed and tens of thousands of civilians and partisans would not have been killed.
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