Alain Delon Claudia Cardinale The Leopard Il Gattopardo 1963

Alain Delon Claudia Cardinale The Leopard, The Leopard (Italian: Il Gattopardo il ˌɡattoˈpardo) is a novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa that chronicles the changes in Sicilian life and society during the Risorgimento. Published posthumously in 1958 by Feltrinelli, after two rejections by the leading Italian publishing houses Mondadori and Einaudi, it became the topselling novel in Italian history and is considered one of the most important novels in modern Italian literature. In 1959, it won Italy s highest award for fiction, the Strega In 2012, The Observer named it as one of the 10 best historical The novel was also made into an awardwinning 1963 film of the same name, directed by Luchino Visconti and starring Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale and Alain Delon.