Word: lampedusa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wine & Mead. Fortas is something of an expert on French wine, distills his own mead on occasion, and whips up an excellent fondue. For "light reading" he is currently keeping on his reading table Robert Massie's Nicholas and Alexandra, Willie Morris' North Toward Home, and Giuseppe di Lampedusa's The Leopard...
...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9 p.m.-12:15 a.m.). The Leopard (1963). Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale star in this motion-picture adaptation of Giuseppe di Lampedusa's novel about social turmoil in Italy at the time of Garibaldi...
...conclusion is pallid; Author Sciascia's novel starts more promisingly than it ends. Much of its second half is given over to an incongruously earnest subplot concerning a Jacobin revolutionary and his bloody, awful torture at the hands of the government. Even so, readers who remember Giuseppe di Lampedusa and his Leopard's lament for a lost aristocracy will be amused by this compensatory catcall from the other side of the island...
...GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS, by Giorgio Bassani. The author was responsible for the posthumous publication of Lampedusa's The Leopard, and he has learned much from the master. Bassani's gracefully written novel depicts the elegant, decadent world of a rich Jewish family and its confrontation with Fascism and death...
...GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS, by Giorgio Bassani. The author was responsible for the posthumous publication of Lampedusa's The Leopard, and he has learned much from the master. Bassani's gracefully written novel depicts the elegant, decadent world of a rich Jewish family and its confrontation with Fascism...