The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later ... - Steven Runciman - Google Libri

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On 30 March 1282, as the bells of Palermo were ringing for Vespers, the Sicilian townsfolk, crying 'Death to the French', slaughtered the garrison and administration of their Angevin King. Seen in historical perspective it was not an especially big…