the University of Leipzig, in publishing two supplements to the Arab-Sicula Library, called Michele Amari "The regenerator of Orientalist studies among his compatriots." References Sources Carteggio di Michele Amari, by Michele Amari (Roux Frassati, 1896) Cavour and Garibaldi, 1860: A Study in Political Conflict, by Denis Mack Smith (Cambridge University Press, 1954) Diari e appunti autobiografici inediti, by Michele Amari (Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 1981) "Le idee politiche di Michele Amari", by Bianca Marcolongo in Documenti per servire alla storia di Sicilia, ed. Andrea Borruso, Rosa D'Angelo, and Rosa Scaglione Guccione (Societa Siciliana per la Storia Patria, 1991) Modern Italy: A Political History, by Denis Mack Smith (Yale University, 1997) Works La Guerra del Vespro Siciliano (1876) vol.1; History of the War of the Sicilian Vespers (1850) vol.2 Solwan; Or, Waters of Comfort by Ibn Zafer, (1852); vol.1; vol.2 Storia dei Musulmani di Sicilia, (1854); vol.1; vol.2 Biblioteca Arabo-sicula (1880) vol.1,vol.2 Un Periodo delle Istorie Siciliane del Secolo 13 (1842) External links A short biography 1806 births 1889 deaths Writers from Palermo 19th-century Italian historians Italian Arabists Italian orientalists Corresponding members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences Education ministers of Italy Burials at San Domenico, Palermo Members of the Senate of the Kingdom of Sardinia Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class) Sicily Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities