- 2019also Sicily
1799: two brothers open a spice shop in Palermo, the start of a dynasty.
- 1816
1786–1788: Goethe slips away to Rome, climbs Vesuvius and sails on to Palermo.
Sicily’s capital of spices, palaces and tuna fleets: a merchant dynasty rising from one shop, and Goethe landing in its harbour in 1787.