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Excerpt from In Sicily, Vol. 1: 1896 1898 1900 The reader must not run away with the idea that the only interesting ruins in Sicily are Greek. Sicily has a beautiful style of architecture peculiar to itself, the arabo-norman, or Sicilian Gothic, the gems of which are the Royal Chapel at Palermo, and the cathedral of Monreale, famous for their mosaics. It also has, in the Royal Palace, a mosaic-lined, arabo-norman dwelling-room of the twelfth century quite perfect, and, in the Palace of the Inquisi tion, the rival of the Bayeux tapestry - the Saracenic roof which Manfred Chiaramonte, in the fourteenth century, had painted with all the life of his time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.