Word: lampedusa
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BEBO'S GIRL, by Carlo Cassola (249 pp.; Pantheon; $4.50). This brief, bittersweet story of lovers separated by fate was first published in 1960, became the rage of Italy, and won the important Strega Prize (given the year before to Giuseppe di Lampedusa's The Leopard...
Last year's princely book was The Leopard, written largely in his 60th year by the late Giuseppe di Lampedusa, Duke of Palma. The current entry in the duke-of-the-year club is Ippolita, written by 75-year-old Alberto Denti di Pirajno, Duke of Pirajno. The resemblances between the two novels do not end there. They are both set in the 19th century amid the first revolutionary stirrings of Italian unification. To match The Leopard's feudally lavish autocratic hero, Don Fabrizio, there is the new book's feudally parsimonious autocratic heroine, Ippolita. Both books...
...LEOPARD, by Giuseppe di Lampedusa. The author, a Sicilian prince, did not live to see his book published and become a bestseller in both Europe and the U.S. The hero is his own autocratic great-grandfather; in grave, glowing prose the story tells how Sicily's great landowners were brought low by revolution and their own stubborn resistance to change. Probably Italy's finest postwar novel...
...Leopard, Di Lampedusa...
...Leopard, Di Lampedusa...