Sicily

Sicily (Italian: Sicilia, officially Regione Siciliana) is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe and is one of the 20 regions of Italy.

Quotes

• She dreams of Love, upon the temple stair,
  In all the drowsy, warm, Sicilian air.
  • Robert Cameron Rogers, "A Sleeping Priestess of Aphrodite" in The Wind in the Clearing, &c. (1894), p. 41

• Now let hot Etna cool in Sicily,
  And be my heart an ever-burning hell!
  • William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, act 3, sc. 1 (Marcus)

• The climate’s delicate; the air most sweet,
  Fertile the isle, the temple much surpassing
  The common praise it bears.
  • William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, act 3, sc. 1 (Cleomenes)

• O Singer of Persephone!
  Dost thou remember Sicily?
  • Oscar Wilde, "Theocritus: A Villanelle" in Poems (1878), p. 138

• They never want to improve. They think themselves perfect. Their vanity is greater than their misery.
  • The Leopard (1963 film)