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2666
by Roberto Bolaño

"…if during the saddest stretch of a Sicilian afternoon he hatched a plan to travel to Morocco…"

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"Indigo had been introduced into Sicily by the Jews during the time of Frederick II., in the early part of Polo’s century."

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"we have intimated the probability that he was the Marco mentioned twice in connection with the Court of Sicily."

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"She reported scraps of Augusta’s travels in Sicily."

The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett

"But there's no denying that the bird did go to Sicily. It was there and it came into the possession there of Victor Amadeus II some time after he became king in 1713, and it was one of his gifts to his wife when he married in Chambé after abdicating."