{"product_id":"the-godfathers-sicilian-school-davide-messina-9781836282976","title":"The Godfather's Sicilian School: Mafia, Opera \u0026 the Origins of Italian Poetry","description":"This 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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Davide Messina\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1836282974\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781836282976\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Troubador Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/28\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.30d","brand":"Davide Messina","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47135423889663,"sku":"9781836282976","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ac5610ed-b454-4b3d-8f9f-2c3b015bcb15.jpg?v=1755010108","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-godfathers-sicilian-school-davide-messina-9781836282976","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}