In Aidone, like in Piazza Armerina, Nicosia, San Fratello, Sperlinga, there is a dialect that has always played alien to the Sicilian ear; Already the first scholars who took care of Sicilian history, from Tommaso Fazello to Rocco Pirri to Vito Amico, highlighted the peculiar language of these countries and made them correlated with their Lombard origins that is rooted in the Norman conquest of Sicily.
Over time, these dialects have been defined as Lombard-Sicilian, Rooster-Romans, Gallic-Sicilian, and finally Galilean of Sicily to distinguish them from the Northern Gallitians.
According to some scholars, Aidone was founded at the end of the 11th century by the Normans, during the conquest of Sicily and the expulsion of the Arabs; But it is far more likely that the Normans have limited themselves to rebuilding and repopulating an existing hamlet torn to the Saracens.
Aidone was the seat of a carbonara cell led by Domenico Scovazzo and on January 26, 1848, he attacked King Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies.
During the expedition of the Mille Aidone, he participated in the fighting: in the Dragofosso district, a group of 120 Lawons, led by Vincenzo Cordova and Gioacchino Mazzola, succeeded in deflecting a Bourbon contingent
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The social and cultural life of Aidone in the nineteenth century was very lively and rich in social and cultural initiatives. In 1865 a municipal library was founded, and from 1884 it was also a popular educational library in circulation. In 1889 the brothers Luciano and Giuseppe Palermo founded the "Mount of Pity" and its bank; A few years later the "Prince of Naples Relief Society" (later "Craftsmanship Company") was founded, founded by Vincenzo Cordova and Domenico Minolfi and finally, in 1895, the "Monte Frumentario" was formed with 157 members.
Since 1843 there was a female orphanage, in 1884 the childcare facility "Vittorio Emanuele" was created for the poor pupils and an elementary school with 14 classes in the former Dominican convent. In 1902 the parish priest opened a female institute for the teaching of sewing and embroidery.
In 1903, the "League of Workers of the Earth" was born, with 300 members and the establishment of a social fund, and in 1905 the "League of Improvement" in favor of sulfur workers.
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