Great adaptations : star-nosed moles, electric eels, and other tales of evolution's mysteries solved / by Catania, Kenneth, 1965-

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The Jews in Sicily. by Simonsohn, Shlomo, 1923-2019

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The universities of the Italian Renaissance / by Grendler, Paul F.

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The Mafia in Italian lives and literature : life sentences and their geographies / by Pickering-Iazzi, Robin

Table of Contents: “…Mafia Geographies of Voicelessness: Silvana La Spina's L'ultimo treno da Catania --…”
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La vis expansiva della rappresentanza : Forme di governo, vocazione presidenziale, resistenze costituzionali / by Lanzafame, Agatino Giuseppe

“…Pubblicazioni della Facoltà di giurisprudenza (Università di Catania. Facoltà di giurisprudenza) ;…”
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The Jesuits and Italian universities. by Grendler, Paul F.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The first Jesuits as university students at Paris and Padua -- The battle of Messina and the Jesuit Constitutions -- Messina and Catania 1563 to 1678 -- The attempt to enter the University of Turin -- The Padua disaster -- The Civic-Jesuit University of Parma -- The Civic-Jesuit University of Mantua -- Two new universities in the marches: Fermo and Macerata -- The bishop says no: Palermo and Chambéry -- The Jesuits and the University of Bologna -- The battle over Canon Law in Rome -- The Jesuits and the University of Perugia -- Jesuit mathematicians in the Universities of Ferrara, Pavia, and Siena -- Philosophical and pedagogical differences -- The Jesuit contribution to theological education -- Conclusion.…”
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Between Scylla and Charybdis : the Jews in Sicily / by Simonsohn, Shlomo, 1923-2019

Table of Contents: “…Introduction; Chapter 1: From Rome to Spain; Chapter 2: The First Millennium; Chapter 3: Jewish Settlements (1); Map 1: Jewish Sicily until 1300; Chapter 4: From Roman Citizens to Servants of the Royal Treasury; Chapter 5: The Jewish Community (1); Chapter 6: Scholars and Poets; Chapter 7: Merchants, Artisans and Others; Chapter 8: Between Scylla and Charybdis; Chapter 9: The King's Jews; Chapter 10: Taxation and Imposts; Chapter 11: Jewish Settlements (2); Map 2: Jewish Sicily in the 14th and 15th Centuries; Map 3: Catania: The Jewish Quarter; Map 4: Messina: The Jewish Quarter.…”
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The afterlife of Greek and Roman sculpture : late antique responses and practices /

Table of Contents: “…Brown -- The Reuse of Funerary Statues in Late Antique Prestige Buildings at Ostia / Cristina Muter -- Germans, Christians, and Rituals of Closure: Agents of Cult Image Destruction in Roman Germany / Philip Kiernan -- The Fate of Classical Statues in Late Antique and Byzantine Sicily: The Cases of Catania and Agrigento / Denis Sami -- The Fate of Sculpture on the Lower Danube in Late Antiquity: Preliminary Observations / Cristina-Georgeta Alexandrescu -- Grand Narratives -- Shifting Use of a Genre: A Comparison of Statuary Décor in Homes and Baths of the Late Roman West / Lea Stirling -- The Disappearing Imperial Statue: Toward a Social Approach / Benjamin Anderson -- The Sunset of 3D / Paolo Liverani -- Travelers' Accounts of Roman Statuary in the Near East and North Africa: From Limbo and Destruction to Museum Heaven / Michael Greenhalgh.…”
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The afterlife of Greek and Roman sculpture : late antique responses and practices /

Table of Contents: “…The Fate of Classical Statues in Late Antique and Byzantine Sicily: The Cases of Catania and Agrigento / Denis Sami; Ten. The Fate of Sculpture on the Lower Danube in Late Antiquity: Preliminary Observations / Cristina-Georgeta Alexandrescu; Part III. …”
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Shared waters : soundings in postcolonial literatures /

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Muslims and Christians in Norman Sicily : Arabic-Speakers and the End of Islam. by Metcalfe, Dr Alexander

Table of Contents: “…Defining the margins of the Arabic-speaking communitiesDemographic mobility: the villeins around Cefalù; Naming and identity; Signs of social integration among villeins: Catania and Aci in 1095; Arabic and Greek names from Nicótera in 1093; Patti: 'Saracens', 'Greeks', and 'men of the Latin tongue'; The extent of local variation: an early register from western Sicily; Onomastic data as evidence for social change; Abandoning Arabic names: the Christians of Collesano; Assessing names of mixed origin; Non-Arabic names from the Monreale villeins in 1178; The Christians of Corleone.…”
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