Between Salt Water and Holy Water: A History of Southern Italy Gothic & Romantic Literary Criticism The drawing is visceral

The drawing is visceral

or maybe your faith just needs some renewing

/ All you have is that rent-stabilized apartment / with the cracked paint and broken windows

we understand why this is the defining struggle of his life

Fugue in a Nursery

Between Salt Water and Holy Water: A History of Southern Italy Gothic & Romantic Literary Criticism The drawing is visceralThe history of southern Italy is entirely distinct from that of northern Italy, yet it has never been given its own due. In this authoritative and wholly engrossing history, distinguished scholar Tommaso Astarita "does a masterful job of correcting this error" (Mark Knoblauch, Booklist). From the Normans and Angevins, through Spanish and Bourbon rule, to the unification of Italy in 1860, Astarita rescues Sicily and the worlds south of Rome from the