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- A place in the sun - The Guardian
Lampedusa's The Leopard chronicles the struggle of the Sicilian aristocracy to survive in the face of social change. It is an enduring myth, says Jonathan Jones - ‘The Leopard’ Turns 50 - The New York Times
Sicily is the key to Italy, as Goethe once wrote, and one novel is the key to Sicily: “The Leopard,” Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s masterpiece. This tale of the decline and fall of the house of Salina, a family of Sicilian aristocrats, first appeared in 1958, but it reads more like the last 19th-century novel, a perfect evocation of a lost world. - Playing politics, Sicilian style - The Irish Times
Lampedusa's The Leopard chronicles the struggle of Sicilian aristocrats to survive social change, with lessons that still endure. - Angelica and Tancredi: An Italian Unification - Chronos
The first article in this journal, 'Angelica and Tancredi: An Italian Unification', explores Italian Unification and The Leopard. - The Structure of Meaning in Lampedusa's Il Gattopardo
Article by Richard H. Lansing, published in PMLA, Vol. 93, No. 3 (May, 1978), pp. 409-422.
When it first appeared Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's Il Gattopardo (The Leopard) was criticized for lacking structural coherence and for including digressive and superfluous narrative material. Such an appraisal, however, does not stand up under analysis. In arranging the individual episodes of the plot Lampedusa twice relies on a sophisticated pattern of chiastic ordering to throw into prominence the novel's central themes and to reinforce symbolic associations. The patterns of concentric symmetry compensate for the effects of the intentionally static quality of a plot that consists more of a sequence of moods and meditations than of specific actions. Lampedusa plays down linear development and compels the reader to seek the novel's unity in its thematic and symbolic structures. Seen from this perspective, Il Gattopardo might well be celebrated rather than censured for the complexity of its structural coherence.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Set in Sicily during the Risorgimento of the 1860s, Lampedusa’s only novel, The Leopard was posthumously published in 1958. A rich portrait of an aristocratic order in decline, it is based on the life of his great grandfather. Lampedusa brings a modernist sensibility to 19th-century history as he charts the meandering, opulent life of Prince Fabrizio - the “leopard” of the title. The descriptions of houses and landscape are mesmerising, and were well captured in Visconti’s sumptuous 1963 film, starring Burt Lancaster in the role of the Prince. [ Source - The Guardian ]
- Biography: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa - Encyclopædia Britannica
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, (born Dec. 23, 1896, Palermo, Sicily, Italy—died July 23, 1957, Rome), Italian author, duke of Palma, and prince of Lampedusa, internationally renowned for his only completed novel, Il gattopardo (1958; The Leopard). - The Leopard author Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's palatial home restored to its glory days
The palatial white stone building in Palermo that inspired classic Italian novel has been restored to its 19th century glory and is available for rent - Letters from the man who wrote The Leopard - The Guardian
Giuseppe di Lampedusa's masterpiece The Leopard was rejected twice and published only after the author's death. What did he do with his life? Julian Barnes finds clues in the reticent Sicilian's letters from abroad
The Leopard Analysis on Video
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History of Sicily & The Risorgimento: Listening & Viewing
A Must Watch! Carluccio and the Leopard (Sicilly)
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Il Gattopardo - The Leopard Film
- Scorsese Restores The Leopard and Revives Cannes's Golden Age
"I live with this movie every day of my life," Scorsese said when presenting Il Gattopardo, an epic adaptation of Giuseppe de Lampedusa's novel about an aristocratic Sicilian family's adjustment to a changing way of life during the Risorgimento. (It's Italy's Gone With the Wind.) Scorsese rhapsodized about the film's "deeply measured tone ... its use of vast spaces and also the richness of every detail." - The Incompossible Language of Natural Aristocracy: Deleuze’s Misreading of Visconti’s The Leopard
This study focuses on Gilles Deleuze’s use of Luchino Visconti’s 1963 cinematic rendition of the 1958 novel by Prince Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Il Gattopardo (The Leopard).