RIVISTA DI FOLKLORI E LITTIRATURA SICILIANI A R B A S I C U L A JOURNAL OF SICILIAN FOLKLORE & LITERATURE Diritturi-Editor GAETANO CIPOLLA CUNSIGGHIERI Ô DIRITTURI EDITORIAL BOARD Michael Badalucco Antonio Pagano Salvatore Bancheri Salvatore Riolo Gaetano Basile Giovanni Ruffino Alissandru Caldieru (Co-founder) Antonino Provenzano Louisa Calio Giuseppe Quatriglio Nicolò d’Alessandro Florence Russo Salvatore Di Marco Marco Scalabrino Arthur V. Dieli Federico Vaccaro Marisa Frasca Justin Vitiello Mario Gallo Jana Vizmuller-Zocco Giovanna Jackson VOLUMI XXXVII, NUMIRA 1 & 2, PRIMAVERA E STATI 2016 VOLUME XXXVII, NUMBERS 1 & 2, SPRING & SUMMER 2016 © Copyright 2016 by ARBA SICULA, ISSN 0271-0730 Design and Camera-Ready Text by LEGAS ARBA SICULA è l’organu ufficiali dâ società siculu-americana dû stissu nomi ca si proponi comu obbiettivu principali di prisirvari, studiari, e promoviri a lingua e a cultura siciliani. 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A R B A S I C U L A A Non-Profit International Organization Promoting the Language and Culture of Sicily Languages and Literatures Department St. John’s University 8000 Utopia Parkway Queens, New York 11439 E-mail [email protected] CUMITATO ESECUTIVU EXECUTIVE BOARD GAETANO CIPOLLA, Ph.D. President and Editor ANTONINO PROVENZANO Vice President FLORENCE RUSSO, Ph.D. Treasurer ROSARIA PIPIA, Ph.D. Secretary CUNSIGGHIERI ADVISORY BOARD Salvatore Bancheri, Ph.D. Rev. Anthony Failla. Alissandru Caldieru (Co-founder) Gaetano Giacchi (Co-Founder) Enzo Carollo, M.A. Robert Marchisotto, Ph.D. Ursula Cottone, Dott. John Randazzo ATTENTION ARBA SICULA MEMBERS! OUR ADDRESS HAS CHANGED While Arba Sicula’s official address remains the same as before, our mail- ing address from now will be: Arba Sicula/Gaetano Cipolla P. O. 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Printed and bound in Canada ARBA SICULA VOLUMI XXXVII, NUMIRA 1 & 2, PRIMAVERA E STATI 2016 VOLUME XXXVII, NUMBERS 1 & 2, SPRING & SUMMER 2016 Indici / Table of Contents DICHIARAZIONI DI LU SCOPU / DECLARATION OF PURPOSE ............8 Puisia siciliana/Sicilian Poetry Sulu un capitulu/Only a Chapter, di/by Joseph Tusiani ........................................14 A fuddia di la vicchiania/ The Madness of Old Age, di/by Gaetano Capuano .......16 Alivi/ Olive Trees, di/by Aldo Tambellini ..............................................................18 La minnitta/ The Revenge, di/by Alessio Di Giovanni ..........................................20 C’era ‘na vota.../One Upon a Time, di/by Maria Nivea Zagarella .........................22 Ludamu a Diu/ Let Us Praise God, di/by Frank Piazza .........................................24 La atta e la fimmina/ The Cat and the Woman, di/by Nino Martoglio .................26 Lu non-so-chi/ The Don’t Know What, di/by Giovanni Meli ...............................28 U ciaramitaru/ U Ciaramitaru di/by Alex Caldiero ..............................................30 Nun ponnu/They Cannot, di/by Nino Provenzano ..............................................32 Lamentu di piscaturi/The Lament of a Fisherman, di/by Enzo Vitale ...................34 Li vantaggi di la rivoluzioni in Sicilia di l’annu 1860/ The Advantages from the 1860 Revolution in Sicily, di/by Pasquale Fulci ................................36 Narrativa siciliana / Sicilian Fiction Lu visiunariu di Chiazza Marina, Palermu/ The Visionary of Piazza Marina, Palermo, di/by Carlo Puleo ....................................................................38 Lu purtusu/The Hole di/by Francesco Lanza ........................................................46 Pinocchiu in sicilianu/Pinocchio in Sicilian, di/by Maddalena Buscaino ...............54 Saggistica /Essays Arricampannu muddichi: Canepa, Turi Lima e Salvu Maltisi / Collecting Breadcrumbs: Canepa, Turi Lima and Salvu Maltisi, di/by Marcello Messina........64 Lu vangelu secunnu Matteu/The Gospel According to Matthew, di/by Alessio Patti .......................................................................................................72 Arti siciliana /Sicilian Art Li cosi duci siciliani: Na storia nteressanti di Rodo Santoro/Sicilian Sweets: An Interesting Story by Rodo Santoro ........................................................................82 La storia siciliana illustrata: Adorno-Madè-Basile/Sicilian History Illustrated: Adorno-Madè-Basile ..............................................................................92 A nostra lingua /Our Language A Sicilian Reading Lesson/Peppi di/by Berto Giambalvo ......................................106 I nostri tradizioni / Our Traditions Sicilian Onomastics: Nicknames and Towns’ Stereotypes ......................................113 L’anticu Carnaluari di la Cuntea di Modica/The Ancient Carnival in the County of Modica, di/by Natale Lo Gatto ..........................................................118 Recensioni /Book Reviews Donna H. DiCello, Psy.D. and Lorraine Mangione, Ph.D., Daughters, Dads, and the Path Through Grief: Tales from Italian America Reviewed by Nino Provenzano .............................................................................128 Nino Provenzano, Pirati supra la nivi/Footprints in the Snow, Reviewed by Marisa Frasca. ..................................................................................130 An Italian Symphony.:The Autobiography of Rosina San Paolo, Reviewed by Joseph Canepa and Fran Schaefer.....................................................134 Libbra ricivuti/ Books Received ............................................................................142 Recommended Books ...........................................................................................144 6 Arba Sicula XXXVII Annunciu/Announcement Arba Sicula is sponsoring the presentation of Nino Provenzano’s new book of poems Pirati supra la nivi/Footprints in the Snow, published by Legas in 2016. The event will take place at St. John’s University, Queens Campus Marillac Terrace on September 24 at 6:15 PM. The book will be presented by Gaetano Cipolla. Nino Provenzano, of course, will recite some of his poems. Refreshments will be served after the event as usual. The event is free as always. Arba Sicula XXXVII 7 DICHIARAZIONI DU SCOPU DA NOSTRA ASSOCIAZIONI “ARBA SICULA, prima di tuttu, la riflissioni in ritardu, di na nicissità sintuta di na cumunità etnica stabiluta nni li Stati Uniti d’America pi difiniri, prisirvari e diffunniri la nostra antica eredità p’assicurari la so vera supravvivenza. Mentri ca l’orientazioni nostra è littiraria, lu nostru mètudu è storicamenti evucativu cu l’intinzioni di nun passari supra nuddu aspettu di la cultura Si- ciliana comu indignu di la nostra esaminazioni e anàlasi. Lu scopu di stu sforzu è, allura, di riscupriri zoccu è ligittimamenti nostru ntra tuttu lu sintasi d’un populu isulanu pussidennu ràdichi nni l’espirienzi storichi Siciliani, Italiani e Americani e macari ligami chiù antichi cu tutti li nazioni di lu Meditirraniu. Circamu la canuscenza d’un senzu di cuntinuazioni ntra nui stissi, e picchissu amu pigghiatu un simbulu anticu di li Siculi (la stirpi principali in Sicilia prima di lu stabilimentu di li Grechi) pi suttaliniari la seriità di lu nostru scopu e pi marcari nni li menti di la juvintù nostra un signu di l’antichità di la so eredità. Nui semu, prima di tuttu, intirissati ca la chiavi di l’arma Siciliana (la lingua di li nostri avi) fussi cunsirvata