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Divorce-Italian Style. Marcello Mastroianni is lethally hilarious as a Sicilian smoothie who gets rid of his wife in the only way the law in Italy seems to allow: femicide...
...manuscript of Giuseppe di Lanipedusa's The Leopard (TIME, May 2, 1960) came to light only by accident some months after the death of its author, an old Sicilian prince who had published nothing during his lifetime. The book was, in a sense, a message washed up in a bottle, and this circumstance may partly account for its great popularity.* But there may be another explanation: the yearning of readers in the cramped present for the spacious spirit of the past...
Divorce-Italian Style. This wickedly hilarious lesson in how to break up a marriage in divorceless Italy stars Marcello Mastroianni as a Sicilian smoothie who sheds his unwanted wife in the only way the law seems to allow: he provides her with a lover, catches them together, shoots her dead. But then...
...Years of Wandering. Lanza, often called "the Gandhi of Europe." is a Sicilian-born nobleman who can trace his family history to Emperors of the Holy...
Divorce-Italian Style. This wickedly hilarious lesson in how to break up a marriage in divorceless Italy stars Marcello Mastroianni as a Sicilian smoothie who sheds his unwanted wife in the only way the law seems to allow: he provides her with a lover, catches them together, shoots her dead. But then...