by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa, Llorenç Villalonga · tapa dura · ISBN 9788473290210
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«El Guepard» is the novel by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa, published by Editorial Moll in hardback (192 pages, in Catalan).
In 1860s Sicily, Prince Fabrizio Salina witnesses the decline of the aristocracy as Italian unification propels the new bourgeoisie. The novel portrays the transformation of a society, the nostalgia for a disappearing world, and the lucidity of one who knows his time is over.
Fifth edition of the Catalan translation, published in 1983, with introduction and translation by Llorenç Villalonga.
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.
