Last night from a village above Milazzo called Santa Lucia Del Mela, there was a sunset where the sun was blood red and sunk into sea in just a few minutes. For 30 seconds the sky was red; red sky at night, shepard's delight and what do you know, across the road went a small herd of hairy sheep, bells ringing and a shepard behind with a big stick and a small dog! 
One of the first books I read  about Sicily was Leonardo Sciascia's "The Wine Dark Sea". The title is a reference to a description in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey of the sky after Etna's eruption turning the sky and sea red. Sciascia's stories are quite bleak, I hope my take on Sicily will be happier than Sciascia's and a lot shorter than Homer's! Either way I have no pretensions to any other literary comparisons apart from the setting-Sicily.