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Nelson's Duchy - A Sicilian Anomaly (Hardcover)
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Nelson's Duchy - A Sicilian Anomaly (Hardcover)
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This unique book describes the history of the Duchy of Bronte, the
Sicilian estate given to Admiral Lord Nelson by the grateful
Neopolitan Bourbons in 1799 for saving them from the revolutionary
mob and the French army, an extraordinary anomaly in a remote and
beautiful setting. This book describes not only the story of the
estate and its very foreign owners, but also that of the English in
Eastern Sicily during the 19th and 20th centuries. Not only was the
Castello di Maniace the seat of a dukedom, but the estate had been
one of Sicily's greatest mediaeval abbeys and played a significant
part in the island's past. The book contains maps and photographs
from a collection long dispersed, sadly the last Duke of Bronte
sold the property over twenty years ago so they document a way of
life that no longer exists. All facets of an unusual Anglo-Sicilian
relationship, with mutual miscomprehension usually uppermost, are
recorded here, sometimes touchingly.
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