References in Culture
- The present (but composed in 1847 and set to music in 1848) Italian National anthem, Il Canto degli Italiani, popularly known as "Fratelli d'Italia" (Brothers of Italy): "Il suon d'ogni squilla / i vespri sonò" (with reference to the past uprisings of the Italian people against foreign rulers, occurring again in these years).
- Giuseppe Verdi's opera I Vespri Siciliani is based on this conflict.
- Francesco Hayez painted a series on the Sicilian Vespers, beginning in 1821.
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