Trinacria
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Souvenirs: Pottery from the town of Caltagirone; a ceramic three-legged Trinacria, the symbol of Sicily; a handmade marionette; traditional Sicilian marzipan.
From Washington Post • Jan. 29, 2020
No Sicilian needed to be told that his three-cornered Trinacria, 75 miles from Africa across the shallow Straits of Pantelleria, and two miles from Europe across the deep Straits of Messina, possessed strategic significance.*
From Time Magazine Archive
On returning to London I sent him a card with a view of Oxford Circus full of traffic and, not knowing his full name, addressed it: A Don Totò, Piccolo Cameriere all’ Albergo Trinacria, Messina.
From Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions by Jones, Henry Festing
Will you again irradiate this isle— That drooped when you were lost?1 & once again Trinacria smile beneath your Mother’s eye?
From Proserpine and Midas by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
The trip promises a new experience, and I shall get a taste, slight though it be, of the golden Trinacria of the ancients.
From The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain by Taylor, Bayard
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