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The book presents for the first time the origins and early development of the history of the new city of Villarosa (1731-1825), Sicilian town of the interior of the island, who was born and developed in the context of reality half of Sicily between 700 and 800 first determining a specific socio-political situation across the Bourbon era of the French Revolution, the age of monarchy, and administrative reforms institutions.
Luigi Di Franco identifies as the original character of this reality, the power barons, religious and devotional practices of civilization, that in the second 700 are the basis of local collective identity and develop a dynamic of feudalism and the emancipation of moral freedom from the material, to be followed in the early decades of the nineteenth century the rise of the bourgeois elite and promotion of all aspects of civic life. The historical essay is divided into three parts. The first 'historic environment' fits the area and analyzes the three convergent action, in building and populating the new city of Villarosa, the noble house of Notarbartolo, and the hierarchy of immigrant families. The second 'popular religious power and identity', using anthropological interpretation to define the identity of the people, identify the processes of social growth and describes the failure of the plot and the emergence of a new feudal state in need of local communities. The third 'from feudal to bourgeois protagonists' outlines the affirmation of bourgeois protagonists involved in the local society to shape its development between economy and politics in the early nineteenth century.
The book presents a case history example of analysis of the mechanisms that transform a temporary reality and fragmented not only in a supportive and stable community but in a new town, where the various microcosm of life express the transition to the new regime dall'ancien leading role of the middle class typical of the early nineteenth century. A socio-political territory is never neutral place, so that the economic processes that the various aspects of socio-anthropological make possible the representation of the history of a society. The volume of historiographical narrative symbolically through the spaces, signs and memories of a community in place between the lights of baronial power and the bourgeois protagonist affirms the centrality of the economic and social history in the ongoing restructure of each community civil.
The author 
* Luigi Di Franco was born and lives in Villarosa, in the province of Enna. He graduated in Philosophy in Teaching in Religious Studies and Modern History, is Professor of Philosophy, History and Human Sciences at the state high school. He is a member of the International Academy of Mycenae and the Italian Philosophical Society, and PhD in Contemporary History at the University of Catania Faculty of Political Science.
He received several awards including national and international cultural: the First Prize for Poetry Prize "City of Dubrovnik," in 1972, First Prize Books for the seventh edition of the National Literary Prize Isola Bella "in Stresa in 1994 in Warsaw (Poland) First Prize for poetry and essays at the XXIV edition of the" Best International Literary Award of the Year "in 1996; Award "SUPERPRESTIGE Spain '98 'for poetry, with" super prize Mexico "for the non-fiction, the International Literary Prize" Miguel de Cervantes "in 1998 in Rome, Madrid, has also been a finalist for the literary prize-publishing" The Author 'in 1998, with a compilation of unpublished poetry Paths of time, the First Prize of Culture of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers for poetry and philosophical essays and literary published in Rome December 14, 1999, "the International Literary Prize Pirandello 2000 in Luco dei Marsi (AQ), the First Prize of the Poetry International Award 'Shakespeare' in 2001 in Rome, the International Prize" Cristoforo Colombo "in 2002 Madrid-Rome, the First Prize for fiction and poetry to the "4 th Competition of Books and Poetry Scene Illustrated 2004", Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, in 2004.
is the author of several papers including The teaching of religion in the history of the Italian school (Caltanissetta, 1991), Truth and freedom in religious education (Enna, 1995); The Nostalgia Being in the poetry of Frederick G. Lorca (Rome, 1999); The "drama of death" in the popular religiosity of Sicily, according to Leonardo Sciascia (Milan, 2000), Philosophical Anthropology and the construction of the personal (Caltanissetta-Rome, 2000), Houses of the word in the poem of the twentieth century Italian (Rome, 2001); The philosophy of the shadows being inexhaustible (Rome, 2001) and Julius Caesar. Choice and cultural fashion in historical research (Acireale-Roma, 2005), Living Philosophy and Anthropology. Being the person starts (Acireale-Roma, 2007); Villarosa first sulfur 1731-1825. A new country among the lights of baronial power and the bourgeois protagonist in Sicily between 700 and 800 (Acireale-Roma, 2009).
has published volumes of poetry A land my heart (Enna, 1993), Fires Baroque (Florence, 1996), Paths of time (Florence, 1999) and the volume of songs PietraLuna (Florence, 2009).
Luigi Di Franco, Villarosa zolfo.Un before the country again in the light of baronial power and the bourgeois protagonist between 700 and 800. Ed.Bonanno, 2009
