The work of Vincenzo Asero and Giovanni Nicolosi
returns an original reading of Maurino banditry
through the rediscovery of places that
they were its cradle and context. It doesn't seem like a coincidence, after all,
if the memory of the brigands who populated Sicily
western, and specifically the Madonie area, both
still today characterized by its spatial identity
precisely from the name, which follows that of the municipality of
San Mauro Castelverde, in the province of Palermo, from
which the gangs started.
What the two authors propose in these pages
it is a historical-naturalistic itinerary that follows the movements
of the robbers, focuses on their hiding places,
explore the locations of massacres and massacres, the areas of raids, the streets
of escape and the ravines of rest; a journey that tells
events and protagonists as it winds through the woods
and mountains, it touches several countries and transcends divisions
administrative offices of the island: from San Mauro itself it arrives at Gangi,
from here to Sperlinga, Nicosia and Troina,
in the Enna area; then again towards the Messina territories of Capizzi and Cesarò.
Il cammino dei briganti in Sicilia
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Authors: Giovanni Nicolosi, Vincenzo Asero
Giovanni Nicolosi
Giovanni Nicolosi graduated in Bologna at DAMS e in semiotic disciplines. He is a nature guide, expert of experiential tourism, and has been operating in the area for over 15 years of the Madonie. Among his professional activities, he deals of the valorisation of the Tiberius Gorges, geosite UNESCO in the Madonie Park, as well as managing the Zipline Sicily and the tallest giant swing in Europe in San Mauro Castelverde. He is interested in the phenomenon of brigandage on the Madonie and on the subject he published La Sicilia dell'Ottocento prisoner of the Maurini brigands, Pietro Vittorietti Edizioni, 2012. He has conducted research on Madonie culture and Sicilian traditions, some of which have been published in volume.
Vincenzo Asero
Vincenzo Asero is a researcher in Applied Economics and professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Catania. He is a member of the scientific committee of the Master in Tourism Promotion and Management of the Cultural and Environmental Heritage of the University of Catania. He has been involved in tourism and for over 30 years development of the territory with particular reference to Sicily, also carrying out consultancy activities. On these Thematic has numerous publications including articles in magazines, volume contributions and monographs for publishing houses national and international. He is a contact person for several magazines international scientists dealing with tourism.