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228 . the miracles of antichrist
IX
palazzo geraci and palazzo corvaja
It was at the time when the Normans reigned in
Sicily, long before the Alagona race had come to the
island, that the two magnificent palaces, Geraci and
Corvaja were erected in Diamante.
The noble barons Geraci built their house by
the market-place, on the crest of Monte Chiaro,
whereas the barons Corvaja built their home far
down the mountain, and embedded it in gardens.
Palazzo Geraci’s black lava walls enclosed a small
square courtyard all harmony and beauty. A high
staircase, which passed underneath a triumphal arch
garnished with weapons, led up into the second
story. Not all around the courtyard, but here and
there in the most unexpected places the walls
opened to form a pillared loggia. Outside, the walls
were ornamented with relief-fillets, with many
colored slabs of Sicilian marble and with the Geraci
barons’ coat-of-arms. There were windows, too,
very small, but whether they were round, with
apertures so small that a grape leaf might cover them, or
oblong, and so narrow that they did not admit more
light than a slit in a curtain, they had magnificently
wrought frames.
The barons Corvaja did not care to adorn the
courtyard of their palace, but on the ground-floor a
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