Word: garibaldini
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brisk pace, Visconti follows the triumph of the Garibaldini in Sicily, Don Fabrizio's acceptence of the Risorgimento, and the hesitant commingling of the old and the new. The last comes in a magnificent sequence detailing the end of the journey made by the Prince and his family to their summer palace in a village above Palermo. Descending from dusty carriages, Don Fabrizio is greeted by a host of punctuous officials and the jaunty blaring of a brass band. With deliberate steps, he walks the gauntlet of gaping, impoverished eyes to enter the cathedral where the organ is playing...
...private life is a leftist) displays the leaders of the Risorgimento as a coterie of cynical opportunists climbing merrily to eminence on the corpses of their comrades. After dancing all night, they swagger off to execute a handful of honest and idealistic men: the last of the Garibaldini...
...Garibaldini." unlike the stars, will not keep their distance. When his dashing nephew Tancredi joins the revolutionary redshirts, Don Fabrizio is forced to applaud the boy's dry, foxy reasoning: "If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change." As his next tactic for keeping things as they are by changing them, Tancredi stoops beneath his class to conquer Angelica, the daughter of a provincial mayor who is picking up parcels of land as fast as Don Fabrizio drops them. The cold calculation and hot sensuality of their courtship, as it rages through...
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