Giovanni di Lampedusa’s novel, The Leopard: The Liberation and Unification of Sicily and Italy
Food for Thought - COURSE FULLCost:
$ 30.00 per personDuration:
1hAbout this experience
Friday, 12:00 – 1:10 pm
August 22
A special course that includes an engaging lecture and a boxed lunch.
Giuseppe’s novel, The Leopard, is considered one of the masterpieces of historical fiction. The N.Y. Times states, “The novel is a perfect evocation of a lost world.” Published after Lampedusa’s death, the novel became one of the best-selling novels of the 20th century. Lampedusa’s novel captures the rise and fall of the aristocratic House of Salina. The novel opens in 1860 with the landing of Garibaldi’s forces in Sicily and recounts the story of world-weary Don Fabrizio, Prince of Salina, scion of an aristocratic family that faces the loss of its power after 400 years.
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Your Host
Anthony Fragola is Professor Emeritus, Media Studies, UNCG. He has an MA in Comparative Literature from UNC -Chapel Hill, English and Italian, and has produced and directed documentaries on the anti-mafia movement in Sicily. A collection of his short stories, The Feast of the Dead, was translated into Italian. Professor Fragola’s investigations into the Sicilian writer Andrea Camilleri’s Detective Montalbano series led to the publication of his essay, “The Spirit of Place in Andrea Camilleri’s The Shape of Water” in Sicily on Screen. Since retirement, he spends months in Sicily enjoying its language, multi-layered culture, and delicious food.