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Tomasi di Lampedusa
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Italian novelist Giuseppe
Tomasi di Lampedusa used his family’s ancestral coat of arms as the
central motif for his historical masterpiece, The Leopard, to
symbolise the declining power of the Sicilian nobility. The titular
leopard serves as a poignant metaphor for the protagonist, Don
Fabrizio Corbera, whose stoic and archaic grandeur is eclipsed by
the social and political upheavals of nineteenth century Italy. |
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