Sperlinga is a comune in the province of Enna, in the central part of the island of Sicily, in southern Italy.

[5] Sperlinga reputedly did not participate in the Sicilian Vespers, the bloody uprising against the Angevin French rulers of Sicily in 1282, and may have offered them protection.

[4]: 542  In 1597 it was sold for 30,834 ounces of gold to Giovanni Natoli,[4]: 542  who was granted a licentia populandi or "licence to populate" by the king of Sicily, Philip II of Spain,[5] and was made Prince of Sperlinga in 1627.

[4]: 542  His son Francesco sold Sperlinga in 1656 to Giovanni Stefano Oneto, but retained the princely title.

[4]: 542 During the Allied invasion of Sicily, in the Second World War, Allied forces under General Allen, including American infantry and tank units and Moroccan Goumiers, moved past Sperlinga to envelop Nicosia, a few kilometres to the south.