Weird. All the Italians and Sicilians I've been friends with over the years are exceptionally warm-hearted and mostly tolerant people. I think that the author has confused Sicilian with La Cosa Nostra. Must have watched The Godfather too many times. Oh wait! It's by Michelle Reid. If she wrote about our Lord and Saviour as an ML, he'd be portrayed as a testosterone-ridden misogynist.
A Sicilian Marriage