Word: garibaldi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While wandering in the secluded garden of his Palermo estate, Don Fabrizio, a Sicilian prince, finds the corpse of a royalist soldier. It is 1860, Garibaldi and his redshirts have landed in Sicily on their way to overthrow the Bourbon monarchy in Naples, and the dead sharpshooter signals the death of a way of life. In his elegiac novel, The Leopard, Giuseppe di Lampedusa chronicles this transformation. But The Leopard is more than a retelling of aristocratic decline. It is also a voyage through the consciousness of Don Fabrizio, who struggles to make sense of the paradox presented...
...violent throes of political unification came late to Italy: only a century ago, musketry crackled across the gentle countryside depicted in Renaissance landscapes, and pictures of red-shirted Risorgimento Leader Garibaldi hung beside Crucifixion scenes on many an Italian's wall. During this era of foment, a group of Tuscan artists banded together at the Cafe Michelangelo in Florence to protest the Florentine Academy's insistence upon slick studio painting that absented itself from what was going on. These artists became known as the macchiaioli, who painted with splashes, macchie, of color...
...bourgeoisie? The prince is a proud man, as proud as the Leopard ramping on his princely scutcheon. But he is not a fool; he knows as well as Tancredi that in the spring of 1860 bourgeois boots are on the march from the Alps to Africa. Garibaldi is at the gates of Palermo, the Bourbons will soon abandon Naples, most of Italy within a year will be unified under the House of Savoy. He knows that boots must be licked, or boots will trample his beloved roses and his noble name into the burning yellow dust of Sicily. He knows...
...Leopard is remarkable at many levels. At the technical level, it is alternately gorgeous and goshawful. Some of the scenes are woolly and want shearing; viewers not recently briefed on Garibaldi may long for time and place clues. Some of the actors, their lips shaping large Italian vowels while the sound track spatters round little English sounds, look a bit like hippos catching peanuts. But the DeLuxe Color is tastefully mixed, and the camera is held by a master (Giuseppe Rotunno). What's more, the camera is pointed at something fiercely beautiful: Sicily. Yellow palazzi peep through dark-green...
...Garibaldi, who threw a neat six hitter at Cornell last Wednesday, will most likely get the starting assignment this afternoon. Del Rossi is being saved for the Yale game Saturday...