The Leopard Author:di Lapedusa, Giuseppe Few novels in the last ten years have given me so much enjoyment. The author writes with great feeling for his native island (Sicily), but with no illusions. The devout wife and daughters, the ironical, sly, mercenary and seductive nephew, the self-effacing Jesuit chaplain -- incisive sketches of these secondary figures surround the full lengt... more »h portrait of Don Fabrizio, with his quick temper, arrogance, disillusionment and loneliness.« less