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Cover of the American Signet edition. The Leopard (Italian: Il Gattopardo [il ˌɡattoˈpardo]) is a novel by Italian writer Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, which chronicles the changes in Sicilian life and society during the Risorgimento.
Il Gattopardo was quickly recognized as a great work of Italian literature. [75] It was published in November 1958, and became a bestseller, going through 52 editions in less than six months. [76] In 1959 Tomasi di Lampedusa was posthumously awarded the prestigious Strega Prize for the novel. [77]
In the novel Il gattopardo by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, the Tomasi family crest is a serval; here, the author refers to the generic term "gattopardo", which indicates large wild cats like the serval, the caracal or the ocelot. In this case, identifying it with the serval is rather obvious, this feline being the only "gattopardo" present on ...
The Leopard (Italian: Il Gattopardo, lit. 'The Serval') [3] is a 1963 epic historical drama film directed by Luchino Visconti.Written by Visconti, Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Enrico Medioli, Pasquale Festa Campanile, and Massimo Franciosa, the film is an adaptation of the 1958 novel of the same title by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.
In July 2022 Rotterdam, Netherlands, counted 2,228 restaurants and cafes. [1] Out of 840 restaurants listed in the Gault Millau restaurant guide for the Netherlands, 52 can be found in Rotterdam. [2] The Parkheuvel restaurant was in 2002 the first restaurant in the Netherlands to receive 3 Michelin stars. [3]
The Maritime Museum Rotterdam is a maritime museum in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Dedicated to naval history, it was founded in 1874 by Prince Henry of the Netherlands. Next to the Maritime Museum lies the open-air Maritime Museum Harbour, which merged with the Maritime Museum in 2014. The Maritime Museum Harbour contains a collection of ...