A Study Guide for Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's "The Leopard"
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The Leopard
Giuseppe di Lampedusa
1959
Introduction
The Leopard (1959), by Giuseppe Tomasi, the prince of Lampedusa, is perhaps the best-known modern Italian novel in the English-speaking world. Produced in a modern Italy that was trying to put the dismal history of Fascism behind it and had been split apart by economic changes after World War II that brought prosperity to the north but left the south in squalid poverty, The Leopard is a nostalgic meditation on the nation's past. The novel is closely based on Lampedusa's own family history and is set during the Risorgimento, the unification of Italy that took place around the same time as the American Civil War. Lampedusa's grandfather had been a great landholder in Sicily, but he died without a will, and his fortune was consumed by decades of legal wrangling among his heirs. Lampedusa, the inheritor of not much more than his title, grew up in the shadow of his ancestor's nobility and looked back on it as a lost paradise. In The Leopard, he conveys his heartbreaking longing for the world that had been swept away by modernity. For Lampedusa, the loss everyone feels when leaving childhood is magnified into the loss of an entire world.
Author Biography
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa was born on December 23, 1896, at his ancestral palace in Palermo, Sicily. Technically his surname was Tomasi, and he was the last person to hold the title of Prince of Lampedusa (a tiny island in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia). The Tomasi family had been members of the European nobility going back to the Middle Ages and had, particularly since the seventeenth century, controlled large estates on Sicily near Palermo. The Leopard is very much a reflection on Tomasi family history. Almost every character and event of the novel can be linked to a historical member of the Tomasi family and the details of their lives, but while the novel is in some sense a history, it is one that was transformed to become an artistic creation.
Prince Giulio, Lampedusa's grandfather and the model for Don Fabrizio in the novel, died without a will in 1885, and the subsequent division of his estate among his heirs, involving decades of legal battles, left the Tomasi family in a relatively diminished and impoverished position. Lampedusa fought in World War I and was captured by the Austrians, but he managed to escape from a prison camp in Hungary and return to Italy. Disgusted by the rise of the Fascist government in Italy, he devoted himself to the study of foreign literature and spent much of his life in London, where he met his wife, Alexandra Wolff von Stomersee, the daughter of the Latvian consul. They were married in 1932