by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa · Feltrinelli Traveller · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788807810282
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«Il Gattopardo» is the historical novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, published by Feltrinelli Traveller in paperback (251 pages, in Italian).
Don Fabrizio, Prince of Salina, contemplates in 1860s Sicily the arrival of Garibaldi and the decline of Bourbon power, while his aristocratic class loses ground to a new bourgeoisie. The novel turns this historical crisis into a reflection on decadence, identity, and the impossibility of stopping change.
Work published posthumously in 1958 and winner of the Strega Prize in 1959; this edition belongs to the Universale Economica collection (no. 1028).
Will appeal to readers of Italian classics and historical fiction about the unification of Italy.
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.
