IL Gattopardo
by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa..
"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.
Lampedusa was the last generation of an old princely family of Sicily. He had long contemplated writing a historical novel based on his great-grandfather, Don Giulio Fabrizio Tomasi, another Prince of Lampedusa."...
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