Pupi Siciliani - Sicilian Marionettes

Deeds and loves of knights, dames and enchanters

The puppets touch the soul with invisible threads, tickling our hidden worlds with their stories of arms and love. Charlemagne, Orlando, Rinaldo and Angelica, good and bad, heroes and vanquished, Christians and Saracens, mythological monsters and magical figures. They represent the most successful historical-iconographic synthesis ever implemented, they are the result of the intertwining of highly specialized craft techniques and contain enormous social and cultural value. The book reconstructs the history and art of the Opera dei Pupi - recognized by Unesco as a "Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity" -, outlines the personalities of the protagonists and offers an unprecedented insight into one of the greatest expressions of inspiration Sicilian.

Author: Alfredo Mauceri

Photographer: Alessandro Saffo, Antonino Bartuccio

Illustrator: Giulia Masia

Translator: Richard Sadleir

Language: Bilingual Italian and English

Format: Softcover, 16x21 cm, 160 pages

ISBN 978-88-99180-58-4

Sicilian puppets. Deeds and loves of knights, ladies and charmers. Book on the stories of Sicily