This Spara was a Sicilian, and is said to have acquired her knowledge from Tofania at Palermo.

Tophania, or Tofania, was an infamous woman, who resided first at Palermo and afterwards at Naples.

The battle was a confused struggle of military and civilians, many citizens of Palermo, armed with "daggers, knives, spits, and iron instruments of any kind," taking part, in favor of Garibaldi, in the street-fighting that accompanied the more regular conflict.

The constitution as established in Sardinia was put in force from Turin to Palermo.

When the Sicilian fleet returned to Palermo, Roger determined to employ all the silk manufacturers in their original occupations.

He consequently collected all their families together, and settled them at Palermo, supplying them with the means of exercising their industry with profit to themselves, and inducing them to teach his own subjects to manufacture the richest brocades and to rival the rarest productions of the East.

Carrier pigeons are employed by the Saracens to convey intelligence to the besieged in Palermo. 1069.

Palermo is taken by the Normans, who reduce the whole of Sicily. 1073.

Neighbour, sharpen the edge-tool of your wits upon the whetstone of indiscretion, that your words may shine like the razors of Palermo: [to POPPEY] you have learning with ignorance, therefore speak my tale.

Philip was engaged in a strict alliance with the emperor his competitor; Richard was disgusted by his rigours towards the queen-dowager, whom the Sicilian prince had confined in Palermo, because she had opposed with all her interest his succession to the crown.

He first came in contact with the Neapolitan troops among the mountains at Calatafimi, and defeated them, so that they retired to Palermo.

" On the 17th of July, 1860, Garibaldi left Palermo, and embarked for Milazzo, on the northwest coast of Sicily, where he gained another victory, which opened to him the city of Messina.

The entire centre of the Continent from Ostend to Palermo, and from Königsberg to Constantinople, was left a political chaos.

The Revolution began in Palermo, crossed the Straits of Messina, and passed in successive waves of convulsion through Central Italy to Paris, Vienna, Milan, and Berlin.

It is a period of preparation for the rise of national Statesushered in by the great crime of the Polish Partition, to which so many modern evils may be traced, and closed by a sudden explosion which shook Europe from Paris to Budapest, from Palermo to Berlin.

"Go down to Rome, to Palermo, to Ragusa, or somewhere where you can put in a month or so in comfort.

The Villa Igiea at Palermo would suit you quite welllots of smart people, and very decent cooking.

* Illinois has an average temperature, which, if compared with that of Europe, corresponds to that of Middle Germany; its winters are more severe than those of Copenhagen, and its summers as warm as those of Milan or Palermo.

A boy, seven years of age, whose name is Vincent Zuccaro, has excited the public attention at Palermo for some time past.

No: I first discovered his talent in that direction at Palermo, where I surprised him in an animated discourse with the dark-eyed daughter of an innkeeper there.

Elaine Steinbeck (W) Thom Steinbeck & John Steinbeck IV (C); 6May71; R505708. Steinbeck tells of weird night of two PT men alone in Palermo.

In St. Mark's at Venice, in the grand old basilica at Torcello, in San Donate at Murano, at Monreale, near Palermo, and in most of the old churches in the East of Europe, we find similar figures, either Byzantine in origin, or in imitation of the Byzantine style.

AG`ATHE, ST., a Sicilian virgin who suffered martyrdom at Palermo under Decius in 251; represented in art as crowned with a long veil and bearing a pair of shears, the instruments with which her breast were cut off.

AMA`RI, MICHELE, an Italian patriot, born at Palermo, devoted a great part of his life to the history of Sicily, and took part in its emancipation; was an Orientalist as well; he is famous for throwing light on the true character of the Sicilian Vespers (1806-1889).

It was at the great gathering at Palermo for celebrating the anniversary of the Sicilian Vespers.