![]() ![]() Both families, the Pirandellos and the Ricci Gramittos, were ferociously anti- Bourbon and actively participated in the struggle for unification and democracy (" Il Risorgimento"). ![]() His father, Stefano, belonged to a wealthy family involved in the sulphur industry, and his mother, Caterina Ricci Gramitto, was also of a well-to-do background, descending from a family of the bourgeois professional class of Agrigento. ![]() "Trouser", from the shape of a nearby ravine), near Porto Empedocle, a poor suburb of Girgenti ( Agrigento, a town in southern Sicily). Pirandello was born into an upper-class family in an area called "Caos" ("Chaos" in Italian, but in Sicilian dialect lit. ![]()
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