This will be the last chapter in my review/notes of the book. Germany invaded Poland in 1939. Mussolini declared support for Hitler, but knew Italy
What book about Sicily would be complete without mentioning the Mafia, right? Mostly because of the blunders of the ruling class in Turin, Sicilians thought
Risorgimento is the Italian word for Unification. It literally means ‘resurgence’, but it is the word that was historically used for this period of Italian
Just because I haven’t mentioned it since the first post, these chapter recaps are my personal notes taken from reading the book by John Julius
My oldest brother passed away sometime early sunday morning. He was 68. After my mom passed away a few years ago, I thought it would be a
Meanwhile, on Sicily, Maria Carolina was waiting to get back to Naples. She had made it clear that she considered Sicily nothing more than a
On April 1, I hit one year of being off the Leukemia meds. Hooray! Numbers are still stable so they’ll be checking me every 3
The “Joseph” and “Joachim” the chapter title refers to are Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon’s brother, and Joachim Murat, his brother in law. In 1801 the French
The title of the chapter refers to Captain Nelson, the great English Admiral, William Hamilton, the English statesman, and of course, everybody’s favorite rampaging French
The Treaty of Utrecht was really a series of treaties by which the European powers sought to regulate their mutual relations. The one that concerned
