Aci

They would have liked to see it given as in Aci, where the noblemen of the town played the kings and the servants, and the artisans took the parts of the Jews and the apostles; and where so many scenes from the Old Testament were added that the spectacle lasted the whole day.

The Miracles of Antichrist: A Novel 1915

It was not given as in Aci and in Castelbuoco; it was not played as at the opera in Palermo; it was only played with miserable marionettes with immovable faces and stiff bodies; but the old play had not lost its power.

The Miracles of Antichrist: A Novel 1915

Notable among his compositions from the next couple of years are two splendid quasi-dramatic cantatas, Aci, Galatea e Polifemo (1708) and Apollo e Dafne (1709–10).

Archive 2009-04-01 Lu 2009

Here, as at _Aci-Reale_, balconies at windows, for the most part supported by brackets, terminating in human heads, give a rich, though rather a heavy, appearance to the street.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Various

_Aci-Reale_, where a street, called "Galatea," reminds us unexpectedly of a very classical place called Dean's Yard, where we once had doings with _Acis_, as he figures in Ovid's _Metamorphoses_.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Various

I was really sorry not to be able to spend a few days at Catania, and view more closely the lovely region around Aci Reale; but it was just here that we suddenly branched off to the west, and plunged into the heart of the island.

Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta W. Cope Devereux

It was a most striking contrast to the lovely scenery we had already passed, and also to that we were approaching -- Aci

Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta W. Cope Devereux

Italy, for in June he composed a pastoral, _Aci, Galatea e Polifemo_, for the marriage of the Duke of Alvito at Naples on July 19.

Handel Edward J. Dent 1916

Italian _Aci e Galatea_ at Naples, for it bears a striking resemblance to other songs written for Boschi, whose voice was of exceptional range.

Handel Edward J. Dent 1916

Aci-reale, Pedara and at other places on the eastern slopes, whence the faithful come to their shrine at Trecastagne on the 10th of May.

Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions Henry Festing Jones 1889