by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa · Argos Vergara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788470179747
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«El Gatopardo» is the historical novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, published by Argos Vergara in paperback (238 pages, in Spanish).
Set in Sicily during Garibaldi's landing, the work follows the Prince of Salina, Don Fabrizio Corbera, and his family as the old aristocratic order crumbles before the rise of a new social class. The narrative addresses the decline of the nobility, the passage of time, and the search for meaning in a transforming society.
Posthumous work originally published in 1958 under the title «Il Gattopardo», winner of the Strega Prize. This 1980 Spanish edition includes the translation by Fernando Gutiérrez.
For readers of historical fiction and Italian classics, with an interest in the Risorgimento and the decline of the aristocracy.
Giuseppe Tomasi, 11th Prince of Lampedusa, 12th Duke of Palma, GE, known as Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, was a Sicilian writer, as well as the last generation of Tomasi Princes of Lampedusa before the family's and their titles' extinction.
