Chapter XIV: The Ascent to Taormina. — The Mad Peaks. — Modern Taormina. — The Hotel. — A Polyglot Crew. — The Theatre. — Saracen and Norman at Taormina
written by Frances Minto Dickinson Elliot, 1820-1898; in Diary of an Idle Woman in Sicily, vol. 1 (London, England: R. Bentley & Son, 1881), 122-137