Did you know Italian was actually born in Sicily? 🇮🇹 Most people think the Italian language came from Florence… but centuries before Dante, in the 1200s, poets were already writing in Palermo — not in Latin, but in the language of the people. Inside Emperor Frederick II’s royal court, poets from all over the island created what became known as La Scuola Siciliana — the Sicilian School of Poetry. They were the first to write about love, life, and beauty using the Sicilian tongue. And one of the