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Modern Agrigento on the hill to the right

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May 29th 2010
Only those who have worked for a long time in one of Charlie's buildings - and there may be only one reader of this blog who still does - will appreciate why I almost wanted to go to the town of Randazzo and have a look, just to see whether his origins suggest some answers for the way he operates. It is not just old Charlie. We have a town called Nicolosi, of Guiseppe fame; Sciacca, as in Con; and ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more

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