The real, inspiring story of the uncrowned kings of Sicily comes to life in Stefania Auci's international bestseller: the determined and ambitious male members of the Florio family are ready to make the greatest sacrifice in order to gain wealth and power: to give up their loved ones, including their own happiness. In this special 19th-century epic, women - mothers, wives, lovers, daughters - are just playthings for history-making men who thirst for social and political influence, who passionately fight against fate: they want to become more than what they were born to be. In fact, bigger than everyone else! It doesn't matter at what price - because everything and everyone can be bought! In The Lions of Sicily, the brothers Paolo and Ignazio Florio, who came to Palermo as penniless refugees, and their descendants vibrate with the two centuries as the background of the large-scale - yet intimate - captivating story that leads to fabulous wealth the typical colors, smells and colorful figures of the cities and landscapes of Sicily in the past.