Ludzie z krainy siarki
People and Land of Sulphur

Summary/Abstract: In traditional narrations Sicily appears to be a land of happiness, full of greenery and blossoming orange and lemon orchards. The author of the presented text topples such heavenly associations and invites to other regions of the Mediterranean island: the land of sulphur. This sulphur plateau spanning between Caltanissetta and Agrigento is just as real, and due to its dark (“infernal”) connotations rapidly caught into a net of mythical references. The author meticulously reconstructs the history of mining sulphur on the island, demonstrating the manner in which mining and the sulphur industry constitute an important part of Sicilian history: both the one imprinted on the language and the one recorded in literature.

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