The Leopard Author:Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa The death throes of the great feudal nobility of Sicily at the time of Garibaldi's invasion are recounted in one of the finest novels in any language published this century. Set in the 1860s, The Leopard is the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and re... more »volution.« less