Sicily
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Sicily (Italian: Sicilia, officially Regione Siciliana) is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe and is one of the 20 regions of Italy.
Quotes
[edit]- She dreams of Love, upon the temple stair,
In all the drowsy, warm, Sicilian air.- Robert Cameron Rogers, "A Sleeping Priestess of Aphrodite" in The Wind in the Clearing, &c. (1894), p. 41
- Now let hot Etna cool in Sicily,
And be my heart an ever-burning hell!- William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, act 3, sc. 1 (Marcus)
- The climate’s delicate; the air most sweet,
Fertile the isle, the temple much surpassing
The common praise it bears.- William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, act 3, sc. 1 (Cleomenes)
- O Singer of Persephone!
Dost thou remember Sicily?- Oscar Wilde, "Theocritus: A Villanelle" in Poems (1878), p. 138
- They never want to improve. They think themselves perfect. Their vanity is greater than their misery.
- The Leopard (1963 film)