{"product_id":"the-godfathers-sicilian-school-mafia-opera-the-origins-of-italian-poetry-paperback","title":"The Godfather's Sicilian School: Mafia, Opera \u0026 the Origins of Italian Poetry - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavide Messina\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book makes a big narrative leap in time, media and imagination. Starting from an iconic film on the Italian-American mafia and its use of a classic Sicilian-Tuscan opera, it stages a fantasy of return to the school of poetry that flourished in medieval Sicily and marked the Italian poetic origins. This is a story within a story. It blurs the line between the inside and the outside, undoes clichés with classics, reads poetry with popular culture. This is not a book about the mafia and opera as such, but about a certain idea of Sicily that brings them together. The place that this idea holds in the popular imagination raises some crucial questions about Italian history and identity. Across a thousand years of cultural and colonial inventions of Sicily, from its American fantasy to its Arab legacy, from cinema to sonnet, this book reframes these questions for a concise and critical introduction to the origins of Italian poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 7.81 x 5.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 28, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52723988726067,"sku":"9781836282976","price":35.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/SQc2sNt7ek9781836282976.webp?v=1763679614","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-godfathers-sicilian-school-mafia-opera-the-origins-of-italian-poetry-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}