The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa REVIEW

Fun how all great Italian novels (I Malavoglia! I promessi sposi! Il gattopardo!) sound absurdly lame with their titles translated in English. Even Foucault's pendulum ends up sounding like porn.
The English Wikipedia page about the history of the Italian Unification - read about the Mille expedition if you plan to read The Leopard:
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