Mellen Books by: Joseph Privitera

• Basic Sicilian A Brief Reference Grammar
• Faustus In Love And Other Poems In English and Other Tongues
• Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) - His Plays in Sicilian Volume 1: Sicilian Limes; Think It Over, Giacuminu; The Cap With the Jingle Bells; Liolà; The Jar; The Vise
• Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) - His Plays in Sicilian Volume 2: The Balance; Cappiddazzu Pays for Everything; The License; The Cyclops; Glaucus; With Kid Gloves
• The Mystery of the Sicilian Sub-Dialect, Sanfratellan, Transformed in the Twelfth Century by the Normans, the Provençals and the Gallo-Italians
• Reference Grammar of Medieval Italian, According to Dante, with a Dual Edition of the Vita Nova

About Joseph Privitera

About the author: Dr. Privitera has been fluent in Sicilian since childhood. His PhD from New York University was in French, and he has taught French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese at NYU and St. Louis University. He served with distinction in the U. S. Foreign Service for 32 years. He is the author of several scholarly language studies such as Language as Historical Determinant, in which he traces the Norman influence in the 12th century on a Sicilian sub-dialect.