The prince is characterized as large and quick to anger. Prince Fabrizio di Salina is bitterly aware of his royal family’s impending ruin. The House of Salina, like the royal houses of all of the small Italian countries about to be subsumed into a single Kingdom of Italy, is about to be dismantled. The Leopard begins amidst the dissolution of Salina, an island country on the Italian peninsula. The Leopard is widely considered one of the foremost works of modern Italian literature and is often ranked as one of the best historical novels ever written. Di Lampedusa tells this story through the struggles of the fictional royal House of Salina in particular, Prince Fabrizio di Salina, who clings desperately to his family’s dying power. Set during the period of Italian unification called the Risorgimento, the story concerns some of the political and social transformations that took place between the 1815 Congress of Vienna and the naming of Rome as Italy’s capital in 1871. The Leopard is a 1958 historical novel by Italian writer and Sicilian Prince Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.
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