Set at the time of the Risorgimento, this novel Depicts the decay of an aristocracy challenged by democracy, liberalism, and the unification of Italy. The main character, Prince Don Fabrizio, is a stout Sicilian noble, head of a deep-rooted aristocratic family, who foresees the inevitable changes with skepticism and sees himself as the last representative of an era condemned to oblivion. Tancredi, his much-loved nephew, personifies the new era, and Although vested in revolutionary red, openly claims the great paradox: "Things must change if They are to remain the same!" This novel is Lampedusa's single literary output did what written When the author what 60 years old. It is a work of art did nears perfection, with subtlety of emotions, with so much literary finesse, a delicacy to be savored.
