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Saint Peter sending Saint Martianus to Syracuse. Engraving.

Recherches et observations naturelles de Monsieur Boccone ... touchant le corail, la pierre etoilée, les pierres de figure de coquilles, la corne d'ammon, l'astroïte undulatus, les dents de poissons pétrifiées, les herissons alterez, l'embrasement du mont Etna, la sangsüe du Xiphias, l'alcyonium stupposum, le bezoar mineral & les plantes qu'on trouve dans la Sicile, avec quelques reflexions sur la vegetation des plantes : examinées à diverses fois dans l'Assemblée de messieurs de Société Royale de Londres, & conferences dans les de Monsieur l'Abbe Bourdelot à Paris / [Paolo Boccone].

Anapo river, Sicily: clumped papyrus grass (Cyperus papyrus) being examined by two people in a rowing boat. Lithograph after J.H. Allan, ca. 1843.

Agriculture: peasants gathering manna from trees in Sicily and packing it in boxes marked "Herring Brothers London". Lithograph, c.1850.

Filosofia e scienze in Sicilia / Corrado Dollo.

Travels in the two Sicilies / by Henry Swinburne, esq., in the years 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780.

I cofanetti di M. Charrière : altra maniera di leggere il progresso estraordinario delle scienze medico-chirurgiche nella Sicilia del secolo XIX / Mario Alberghina.

Vestiges of ancient manners and customs, discoverable in modern Italy and Sicily / By the Rev. John James Blunt.

Festival of the poor : fertility decline & the ideology of class in Sicily, 1860-1980 / Jane C. Schneider, Peter T. Schneider.

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Sicily

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Images referencing Sicily

Works from the collections

Filosofia e scienze in Sicilia / Corrado Dollo.

Travels in the two Sicilies / by Henry Swinburne, esq., in the years 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780.

I cofanetti di M. Charrière : altra maniera di leggere il progresso estraordinario delle scienze medico-chirurgiche nella Sicilia del secolo XIX / Mario Alberghina.

Vestiges of ancient manners and customs, discoverable in modern Italy and Sicily / By the Rev. John James Blunt.

Festival of the poor : fertility decline & the ideology of class in Sicily, 1860-1980 / Jane C. Schneider, Peter T. Schneider.

Sicily

Images from the collections

Images referencing Sicily

Works from the collections

Filosofia e scienze in Sicilia / Corrado Dollo.

Travels in the two Sicilies / by Henry Swinburne, esq., in the years 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780.

I cofanetti di M. Charrière : altra maniera di leggere il progresso estraordinario delle scienze medico-chirurgiche nella Sicilia del secolo XIX / Mario Alberghina.

Vestiges of ancient manners and customs, discoverable in modern Italy and Sicily / By the Rev. John James Blunt.

Festival of the poor : fertility decline & the ideology of class in Sicily, 1860-1980 / Jane C. Schneider, Peter T. Schneider.

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