Sicilian Rebel.
Waynesville, North Carolina: United Methodist Church, [1979]. Item #933 8vo. 220 x 150 mm., [9 x 5 3/4 inches]. [iv], 138 pp. Illustrated with a map of Sicily and half tone photos of the Sicilian landscape. Original cloth, dust jacket; some staining to front wrapper. This copy with an inscription reading " To Honey and Jim/ With Love from/ Bob/ Christmas, 1979. This is probably by the author. First edition. Robert Brooks, former Dean of Williams College, edited the "personal narrative of S. V. Ravi`, a Capuchin monk and Roman priest, born in a mountain village of Sicily, who left the Catholic Church, was excommunicated by the Pope, became an eloquent orator at the climax of the Italian Risorgimento, found the Methodist Church in Rome, and was buried in a mountain village in Vermont."
Price: $30.00