In this dreamlike final reckoning, Don Fabrizio dies as he lived: proud, weary, and beyond the world of ordinary men.
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896-1957) was a Sicilian prince, scholar, and solitary novelist who wrote only one book--and changed Italian literature forever. The Leopard, published posthumously, is an elegy for a dying aristocracy and a meditation on time, memory, and quiet extinction.
