The Leopard is a novel written by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
at the end of the 50's in the twentieth century.
A posthumous novel rejected by several publishing houses
narrated the life of Prince of Salina, Don Fabrizio Corbera,
in the mid-19th century during the Risorgimento, Italian unification.
A novel tells the time of change reflected in the conversation
of Fabrizio and his nephew Tancredi.
If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.
A mere reflection of Alphonse Karr famous phrase a century ago.
The more things change, the more they are the same.
As one servant would say: now and then, the gatherings of nobles
and bourgeois are the same. They last until the dawn.
The Leopard, a superb novel, a superb movie
is directed by Luchino Visconti. It's one of his best movies
with famous Burt Lancaster starring as a prince of Salina
and Alan Delon as Tancredi.
Gattopardismo is a movement which apparently reforms
the structure or the political bases, in a radical way,
so that in fact nothing changes.
A reality in which such structures of social foundations
that are supposed to disappear, still exist.