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Ippolita, by Alberto Denti di Pirajno. Highly reminiscent of The Leopard and written, as was that excellent novel, by an aging Sicilian duke, Ippolita draws an evocative portrait of semifeudal Italian society amid the first revolutionary stirrings in the early 19th century. The author depicts princes, peasants, and his skinflint heroine with melodramatic gusto, but his most exact and memorable character is the past itself...
Best Ippolita, by Alberto Denti di Pirajno. Highly reminiscent of The Leopard, and written, as was that excellent novel, by an aging Sicilian duke, Ippolita draws an evocative portrait of semifeudal Italian society amid the first revolutionary stirrings in the early 19th century. The author depicts princes, peasants, and his skinflint heroine with melodramatic gusto, but his most exact and memorable character is the past itself...
Memo to publishers: sign up all Sicilian dukes of advanced years. They write good novels...
...CLAUDIA CARDINALE is a new sex bomb, deliciously ticking. With an Italian father, a French mother, a Tunisian birth place and a Sicilian girlhood, she is a 22-year-old gift from the Mediterranean Sea. with dark hair, burnt-olive skin, perfect white teeth and a profile that drops exquisitely across her Palladian nose, mouth and chin, then pours forward boldly before it plunges past an urn of hips to the floor. Daughter of a railroad worker, she has been to all the right schools: a Sicilian beauty contest, the Venice Film Festival, the cover of Paris Match. French critics...
...these two short novels, La Garibaldina, chronicles a picaresque encounter on a Sicilian train after World War I between a simple, hearty young soldier, joyous at the prospect of a three-day leave home, and a lusty, waspish old baroness who is full of guile and as phony as her title. She is nicknamed La Garibaldina, because she used to be a camp follower in Italy's redshirt army of liberation in the 1860s, a career she has elaborated into her own self-nourishing legend that she was the schoolgirl who inspired Garibaldi's march on Rome. Phony...