The Leopard - Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa C.N. Lijsen of visionary exaltation and despairing

of visionary exaltation and despairing melancholy

als nuchtere Engelsman met een fascinatie voor mythologie en het bovennatuurlijke

He buys a mysteriously damp house on the coast

drinking songs and urban slang

The Leopard - Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa C.N. Lijsen of visionary exaltation and despairingIn the spring of 1860, Fabrizio, the charismatic Prince of Salina, still rules over thousands of acres and hundreds of people, including his own numerous family, in mingled splendour and squalor. Then comes Garibaldi's landing in Sicily and the Prince must decide whether to resist the forces of change or come to terms with them.