The
Historia Sicula is a chronicle and work written in
Medieval Latin prose about the story of the
Kingdom of Sicily and
Kingdom of Naples, taking place between the years 1250 and 1293. The work is important as it is the best known account of the
Sicilian Vespers. The work reflects the desires of the author to be witness to historical events that would change his homeland. It is written in Latin in prose. The narrative begins with the death of
Frederick II of Swabia in 1250 to the summer of 1293. Much of Neocastro's work is lost, but his work was cited by Spanish historian
Jerónimo Zurita y Castro (1512–1580) in his history of the Crown of Aragon, ''''. ==References==