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For almost three centuries, Sicily has been a flourishing Arabian domain, including figurative, architectural, landscaping and linguistic signs. From the prosperous union among several people, Sicily obtained a linguistic primacy in creating the literary Italian language. It was in the courts of  Sicily that  the sonnet was created, and it later became the poetic composition for excellence of the Tuscan Dolce Stil Novo. All memories about a past of which- as History teaches- future can’t do without.

Lecture by

Prof. Patrizia Torricelli

Full Professor of Glottology and  Linguistics

Dpt. Ancient and Modern Civilizations

Head of Language Center of the University of Messina (CLAM)

University of Messina

Master Degree in Literature and Classics at the University of Pisa, Prof. Patrizia Torricelli is a researcher at the Department of Glottology of the University of Pisa; specialized in Linguistics at the Ècole Pratique des Hautes Etudes of Paris. He is also a Professor of Glottology and Linguistics at the University of Messina since 1987; and Head Director of the Language Center of Messina University(CLAM) since 2012.

Prof. Torricelli is an author of numerous scientific articles on the topics of Comparative Linguistics, Indo-European Studies, Semantics, Theory of Language, Cognitive Linguistics, Linguistic Reconstruction of Cultural Models of Thought, Linguistic Communication and Language Teaching, published in national and international journals and Conference Proceedings