The Vespers of Palermo is an 1823 historical tragedy by the British writer Felicia Hemans. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden on 12 December...

Palermo began to ring for Vespers. Runciman describes the mood of the night: To the sound of the bells messengers ran through the city calling on the...

Literature awarded her for the best poem on the subject of Dartmoor, to which, she began on her play, The Vespers of Palermo. In 1825, one of Felicia's brothers...

The War of the Sicilian Vespers, also shortened to the War of the Vespers, was a conflict waged by several medieval European kingdoms over control of...

Burgtheater). Felicia Hemans – The Vespers of Palermo Mary Russell Mitford – Julian Richard Brinsley Peake – Presumption; or, the Fate of Frankenstein James Planché...

in front of this church that the popular insurrection, later named the Sicilian Vespers, exploded. s.r.o, Tripomatic. "Santo Spirito, Palermo in Metropolitan...

Cornwall (1821) Raimond Di Procida in The Vespers of Palermo by Felicia Hemans (1823) Charles II in Charles the Second by John Howard Payne (1824) Leon...

symbol of Sicilian heritage. The Flag of Sicily, regarded as a regional icon, was first adopted in 1282, after the Sicilian Vespers of Palermo. It is...

during the rebellion of the Sicilian Vespers. The flag is characterized by the presence of the triskeles in its middle formed by the winged head of a woman...

the end of the 13th century, with the War of the Sicilian Vespers between the crowns of Anjou and Aragon, the island passed to the latter. In the following...

as a champion of Sicilian independence from the Neapolitan Bourbon rule when he published his history of the War of the Sicilian Vespers in 1842. He was...

(1821) Bertone in Julian by Mary Russell Mitford (1823) De Couci in The Vespers of Palermo by Felicia Hemans (1823) Velaszque de Leon in Cortez by James Planché...

The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Palermo (Latin: Archidioecesis Panormitana) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church. It was founded as the Diocese of...

Hemans: The Siege of Valencia; The Last Constantine; with Other Poems The Vespers of Palermo: A tragedy, verse drama Mary Howitt and William Howitt, The Forest...

period in the background during the reign of Charles I of Anjou, the Parliament became the central focus of the organization of the Sicilian Vespers. On 3...

death. He was the third son of Peter III of Aragon and served in the War of the Sicilian Vespers on behalf of his father and brothers, Alfonso ΙΙΙ and...

was important to the development of its region during the Middle Ages. During the War of the Sicilian Vespers, it was subject to Roger of Lauria. It was...

in Cortez by James Planché (1823) Anselmo in The Vespers of Palermo by Felicia Hemans (1823) Herman in The Three Strangers by Harriet Lee (1825) Highfill...

Caius Gracchus by James Sheridan Knowles (1823) Count Di Procida in The Vespers of Palermo by Felicia Hemans (1823) Melchtal in William Tell by James Sheridan...

especially in the island of Sicily. A French soldier's arrogance caused a popular riot—known as the Sicilian Vespers—in Palermo on 30 March 1282. The riot quickly...

lexicon. The word Mafia was then used to refer to the defenders of Palermo during the Sicilian Vespers against rule of the Capetian House of Anjou on...

[kʊɾlɪˈuːnɪ]) is an Italian town and comune of roughly 11,158 inhabitants in the Metropolitan City of Palermo, in Sicily. Several Mafia bosses have come...

overlooking the Piazza Bellini, next to the Norman church of San Cataldo and facing the Baroque church of Santa Caterina, in Palermo, Italy. The church is...

Dorville in The Delinquent by Frederick Reynolds (1805) Count Zulmio in Edgar by George Manners (1806) Villager in The Vespers of Palermo by Felicia Hemans...

at Palermo. Yet his reign is marked by an ambitious foreign policy and a vigorous diplomacy. Champion of the papacy and in secret league with the Lombard...

after the Sicilian Vespers, the kingdom split into separate states: the properly named "Ultra Sicily" (Siciliae ultra Pharum, Latin for "Sicily over the Strait")...

The Modern Art Gallery of Palermo (Italian: Galleria d'Arte Moderna Palermo) is a civic art gallery of Palermo, displaying works from the 19th until the...

in the Mediterranean, with its capital of Palermo serving as a major cultural and political center of the Muslim world. Sicily was peripheral part of the...

1185 – Palermo Cathedral construction begins. 1191 – Basilica della Santissima Trinità del Cancelliere [it] active. 1282 30 March: Sicilian Vespers uprising...

brief rule by Charles of Anjou, a revolt in 1282 known as the Sicilian Vespers threw off Angevin rule in the island of Sicily. The Angevins managed to maintain...