Villa dei Mostri

 

The Gravinas built the dwelling,
Sciascia tells us in a book
whose hero is a prolix diplomat
in The Emperors of Abyssinia.

He fell in love with a Coptic princess,
but died in Sicily , alone,
rejected by his only, unhappy love.

 

 

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“Villa dei Mostri” (Italian for “Villa of the Monsters”): Built during the second half of the eighteenth century, the Villa Gravina of Palagonia (near Palermo ) is decorated with sculptures of mythological and fantastic creatures. Leonardo Sciascia (1921-1989) was Sicily 's foremost postmodern writer. Els emperadors d' Abissínia ( The Emperors of Abyssinia ) is a novel by Perucho from 1989.

 

 

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