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Those were the best days in the life of Tancredi and Angelica, lives later to be so variegated, so e...

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The Leopard

She was tall and well-made, on an ample scale; her skin looked as if it had the flavour of fresh cre...

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There had been no enemies, just one single adversary, herself; her future had been killed by her own...

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They are coming to teach us good manners!" I replied in English. "But they won't succeed, because we...

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The Leopard

If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.

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A man of forty-five can consider himself still young till the moment comes when he realises that he ...

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The truth is that he wanted to draw a little comfort from gazing at the stars. There were still one ...

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Como siempre, la consideración de su muerte lo serenaba tanto como lo turbaba la muerte de los demás...

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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Writer

Born: 1896-12-23

Died: 1957-07-23

Giuseppe Tomasi, Duke of Palma di Montechiaro and Prince of Lampedusa (December 23, 1896 – July 23, 1957) was an Italian novelist, short-story writer and critic. He is best known for his posthumously published novel Il Gattopardo (The Leopard), which was filmed by Luchino Visconti in 1963.More