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- Cipolla, Gaetano (2004). "U sicilianu è na lingua o un dialettu? / Is Sicilian a Language?". Arba Sicula. XXV (1&2): 138–175.
- Cipolla, Gaetano (2005). The Sounds of Sicilian. Legas. ISBN 1-881901-51-3.
- Martoglio, Nino (1993). The Poetry of Nino Martoglio. Legas. ISBN 1-881901-03-3. (bilingual: Sicilian and English; edited and translated by Prof. Gaetano Cipolla)
- Meli, Giovanni (1995). Moral Fables and other poems. Legas. ISBN 1-881901-07-6. (bilingual: Sicilian and English; edited and translated by Prof. Gaetano Cipolla)
- Coniglio, Angelo F. (2012). The Lady of the Wheel. Legas. ISBN 1-881901-86-6. (English, with Sicilian)
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