by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa · Ediciones ORBIS, S.A. - Editorial ORIGEN, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788475300740
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«El gatopardo» is the historical novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, published by Ediciones Orbis in hardback (289 pages, in Spanish).
Set in nineteenth-century Sicily during the Italian unification, it tells the story of Prince Fabrizio Salina, an aristocrat who witnesses the decline of his class. Tancredi, the prince's nephew, embodies those who bet on change, and the narrative reflects on power, decadence and the meaning of history.
Work published posthumously in 1958; in 1959 it won the Strega Prize. This 1982 edition belongs to the Historia Universal de la Literatura collection, no. 30, with a translation by Fernando Gutiérrez.
For readers of historical fiction and the great Italian classics of the twentieth century.
Giuseppe Tomasi, 11th Prince of Lampedusa, 12th Duke of Palma, GE, known as Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, was a Sicilian writer, as well as the last generation of Tomasi Princes of Lampedusa before the family's and their titles' extinction.
