Buscemi, Santi V.
Santi Buscemi is the son of immigrants from Agrigento, Sicily. He is the translator of Luigi Capuana’s Nine Sicilian Plays (Edwin Mellin Press), as well as Capuana’s Sicilian Tales (C’era una volta), the The Marquis of Roccaverdina, and Profiles of Women.
He has presented at a conference marking the one-hundredth anniversary of the death of Luigi Capuana in 2015, at which he was made an honorary citizen of the author’s hometown of Mineo, Italy. He is a cavaliere of the Order of Merit of the House of Savoy and is the recipient of the Pergamena Onorifica, Centro Studi Frederico II, Palermo e Roma.
He lectures on the culture of southern Italy, especially Sicily, about which he has written two slide presentations on the island’s history and literature.
2016 1-4955-0427-1The father of Italian dialect theater Luigi Capuana (1839-1915) embraced the literary movement verismo (Italian realism). His major plays, with their emphasis on naturalism and objectivity over symbolism, have now been beautifully translated for an English readership and audience.
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Baron Serafino Amabile Guastella (1819-1899) was born and died in Chiaramonte Gulfi, in Modica, Province of Siracusa, which was, at the time of his birth, part of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Guastella received an education with a classical and religious emphasis but which also included an introduction to the French Enlightenment and to British empiricism. He taught in the gymnasium at Modica, then at the Tommasso Campiailla Liceo . He was a leading anthropologist and gatherer of information about the customs and traditions of his native Sicily.
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