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MN (mlla) highlights various well-known musicians, directors, poets and even Nobel prize winners from Sicily in her last section on the Italian island that is home to Ignazio and Piero.

Per MN,  “Some Sicilian famous personalities :

– Mathematician: Archimede da Siracusa
– Painters: Antonello da Messina, Renato Guttuso
– Writers: Tomasi di Lampedusa, Luigi Pirandello (Nobel prize), Giovanni Verga, Salvatore Quasimodo (Poet and Nobel Prize), Elio Vittorini, Vitaliano Brancati, Gesualdo Bufalino, Dacia Maraini,Leonardo Sciascia and Andrea Camilleri
– Musicians/composers: Alessandro Scarlatti, Vincenzo Bellini, Fraancesco Paolo Frontini
– Film Directors: Giuseppe Tornatore (Oscar winner) and Emanuele Crialese.”

Thank you MN, we have enjoyed your contributions!

Additional Information

Giuseppe Tornatore
Cinema Paradiso director Giuseppe Tornatore to shoot next film in UK  3/7/2014
http://www.screendaily.com/news/giuseppe-tornatore-to-shoot-in-uk/5068399.article
http://www.bestofsicily.com/mag/art43.htm

Italy’s Treasures: The Genius of Archimedes of Syracuse
http://www.italymagazine.com/featured-story/italys-treasures-genius-archimedes-syracuse

Best of Sicily  Antonello da Messina
http://www.bestofsicily.com/mag/art24.htm

Luigi Pirandello
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/461518/Luigi-Pirandello

Salvatore Quasimodo – Biographical The Nobel Prize in Literature 1959
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1959/quasimodo-bio.html

Alessandro Scarlatti
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/526698/Alessandro-Scarlatti
http://www.baroquemusic.org/bqxascarl.html