Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Claudio Cutrona, a Sicilian, proclaims that yes often becomes no in Sicily. We go in through a small doorway in Via Bara all'Olivella. -> Don Fabrizio could not know it then, but a great deal of the slackness and acquiescence for which the people of the South were to be criticized during the next decades was due to the annulment of the first expression of liberty ever offered them. #2 The Battle of Sicily in 1943 was the first expression of liberty ever offered the people of the South. They initially embraced the Allied invaders, eager to get out from under German and fascist domination. #3 The Battle of Sicily in 1943 was the first expression of liberty ever offered the people of the South. They initially embraced the Allied invaders, eager to get out from under German and fascist domination. #4 The first expression of liberty offered the people of Sicily was the Battle of Sicily in 1943, during which they initially embraced the Allied invaders, eager to get out from under German and fascist domination.