The Leopard
1958 novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Leopard (Italian: Il Gattopardo [il ˌɡattoˈpardo]) is a novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa that chronicles the changes in Sicilian life and society during the Risorgimento. Published posthumously in 1958 by Feltrinelli, after two rejections by the leading Italian publishing houses Mondadori and Einaudi, it became the top-selling novel in Italian history and is considered one of the most important novels in modern Italian literature. In 1959, it won Italy's highest award for fiction, the Strega Prize.[1] In 2012, The Guardian named it as one of "the 10 best historical novels".[2] The novel was made into an award-winning 1963 film of the same name, directed by Luchino Visconti and starring Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale and Alain Delon.
Author | Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa |
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Original title | Il Gattopardo |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
Genre | Novel |
Set in | Sicily |
Published | 1958 |
Publisher | Feltrinelli |
Media type | Print (hardcover, paperback) |
Pages | 330 |
Awards | |
ISBN | 0-679-73121-0 (Pantheon edition) |
OCLC | 312310 |
853.914 | |
LC Class | PQ4843.O53 |
Tomasi was the last in a line of minor princes in Sicily. He had long contemplated writing a historical novel based on his great-grandfather, Don Giulio Fabrizio Tomasi, another Prince of Lampedusa. The Lampedusa Palace in Palermo, like the palace in the novel, was bombed during the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943.