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Content also records Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s final period before his death, the novel’s submission and rejection trajectory, and details about letters and correspondence linked to real individuals. Structure references the work’s main sections and supporting paratexts.","Translation of foreword and appendix copyright © 2007 by Guido Waldman  \nCopyright © 1960 by William Collins & Co. Ltd. and Random House, Inc.  \nCopyright renewed 1988 by William Collins PLC and Random House, Inc.  \nAll rights reserved. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in Italy as Il Gattopardo by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, Milano, in 1958.  \nReissued in Italian in 2002 by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, Milano, with new material by the author included in the appendix. Copyright © 1958, 2002 by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, Milano.  \nThis translation originally published in the United States by Pantheon Books and in Great Britain by Collins and Harvill Press, William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. in 1960 andrepublished in 2007 with a new foreword and appendix. This translation includes the previously unpublished foreword by Gioacchino Lanza Tomasi.  \nThe Library of Congress Cataloged the First Printing of this title as follows:  \nTomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe, 1896–1957.  \nThe leopard [by] Giuseppe di Lampedusa. Translated from the Italian by Archibald  \nColquhoun. [New York]  \nPantheon [1960]  \n319 p. 22cm.  \nI. Title.  \nPZ 4. T655Le 853.912 60–6794 rev ‡  \neISBN: 978-0-307-83399-0  \n[r62ɻ]  \nv3.1  \nGrateful acknowledgment is made to Principessa Alessandra di Lampedusa for her help in the translation.  \n—A.C.  \nContents  \nCover  \nTitle Page  \nCopyright  \nAcknowledgements  \nForeword by Gioacchino Lanza Tomasi  \nTranslator’s Note  \n1. Introduction to the Prince  \n2. Donnafugata  \n3. The Troubles of Don Fabrizio  \n4. Love at Donnafugata  \n5. Father Pirrone Pays a Visit  \n6. A Ball  \n7. Death of a Prince  \n8. Relics  \nAppendix by Gioacchino Lanza Tomasi  \nAbout the Author  \nForeword  \nGiuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa was unable to see his works through to publication. In April 1957 he was diagnosed with a tumor on the lung and although at the end of May he set out hopefully for Rome, he was to die there on 23 July. He had been trying to ɹnd a publisher for The Leopard for a year. The novel had been submitted to Mondadori and turned down. It had gone on to Einaudi and, a few days before his death, the author had received another rejection letter. However, Lampedusa was convinced that the book had merit. Before leaving for Rome, he had drawn up two testamentary letters, one addressed to his wife, Alessandra (Licy) Wolʃ Stomersee,* and the other addressed to me, his adopted son.† On 30 May he had also written to Enrico Merlo regarding the work.‡ The letter to Merlo and the testamentary letter to me were discovered in 2000 by Giuseppe Bianchieri, the princess’s nephew, in a volume of The Voyages of Captain Cook. The princess had picked up her husband’s habit of using books as hiding places for private papers. Sometimes both spouses would lose documents this way (and also sometimes hidden banknotes): to forget which book had been used was the equivalent of forgetting one’s password nowadays.  \nThe letter to Enrico Merlo accompanied a typescript of the novel with a brief description of how the characters corresponded to real people. The identiɹcations are unambiguous, except for Tancredi, whom Lampedusa claimed to have based on me physically and on the careers of the two senators, Francesco and Pietro Lanza di Scalea. Francesco, exiled in Tuscany and then appointed to the Senate by the king on Uniɹcation, had been a supporter of the center-left, and had run, unsuccessfully, for the post of mayor of  \nPalermo. His son Pietro had been minister of war in the Facta government and minister for the colonies in the ɹrst Mussolini government. Pietro was a professional politician; undersecretary atthe time of the war with Libya, he moved from the center-left to the right. 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