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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa: The Leopard (unabridged)

Read by David Horovitch

David Horovitch’s voice, rich in timbre and sepia in tone, is wonderfully paired with this masterpiece, a tale of degeneration and ruin. Like the declining House of Salina itself, Horovitch’s... — Washington Post More…
  • Release Date: 26th Oct 2009
  • Catalogue No: NA799612
  • Label: Naxos AudioBooks
  • Series: Classic Fiction, Complete Classics
  • Length: 9 hours 1 minute

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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa: The Leopard (Unabridged)

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  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London

1: Introduction to the Prince, May 1860

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With a wildly excited Bendico bounding ahead of him…

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Those audiences! All those audiences…

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Dinner at Villa Salina was served…

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It was not dark yet…

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Leaving the carriage at his palace…

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Next morning the sun lit on a refreshed Prince.

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The estate office was still empty…

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But he was soon exiled from these stellar realms.

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The Prince smiled.

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Leaving Bendico panting from his own dynamism…

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Both soothed, they began discussing a report…

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In the estate office, to which he returned after luncheon…

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2: Donnafugata, August 1860

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An hour later they were all on the road again…

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It had been an idyllic evening…

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Beyond the short bridge leading into the town…

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The Salina palace was next door to the Mother Church.

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He went up the internal staircase…

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The Jesuit was sweating in the heat of the little room…

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An hour later he awoke refreshed…

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The Prince had always taken care…

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About Tancredi there seems little to be said…

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At the end of dinner the conversation became general…

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Centuries-old tradition required…

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3: The Troubles of Don Fabrizio, October 1860

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Tancredi had been gone for more than a month…

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The sensation of finding himself a prisoner…

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Don Fabrizio only revealed the contents of this letter…

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For the moment such tight-rope balancing was suspended…

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By some association of ideas…

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The day of the Plebiscite was windy and grey…

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Before dusk the three or four easy girls of Donnafugata…

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At this point calm descended on Don Fabrizio…

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Don Ciccio had said his say.

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Don Ciccio, who, as protege of queens…

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When Don Calogero's arrival was announced…

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The Mayor's eyes had been fixed on the orange fringe…

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The excellent Jesuit, dragged from his reading…

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It would be an exaggeration to say…

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4: Love at Donnafugata, November 1860

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Angelica's first visit to the Salina family…

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Don Fabrizio's voice quickly put such trifling…

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Now that Don Fabrizio felt serene again…

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It was a moving moment, this grouping of the family…

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Having had their say on military changes…

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As the result of this welcome arrival…

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Tancredi wanted to show Angelica the whole palace…

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Once the surprise was of a different kind.

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So the pair of them spent those days…

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When Angelica and Tancredi returned to the world…

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In the smoking room, conversations…

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One day about that time Don Fabrizio received a letter…

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Next morning Tancredit and Cavriaghi led him…

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At four in the afternoon the Prince sent…

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The Piedmontese, representative of the only liberal State…

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Not all of this was understood by the good Chevalley…

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'There is a name I should like to suggest for the Senate…'

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Chevalley left early next morning…

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5: Father Pirrone Pays a Visit, February 1861

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Then towards evening his friends came…

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Father Pirrone had more than once asked himself…

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'You, Don Pietrino, if you weren't asleep…'

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Another sample of these complications…

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The Jesuit took a chair and sat down…

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After celebrating the Divine Sacrifice…

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When Father Pirrone got back to the little square house…

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6: A Ball, November 1862

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The great stairs were of rough material…

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Angelica and Don Calogero were late…

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While Angelica reaped laurels…

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The ballroom was all golden…

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Till that moment accumulated irritation…

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Angelica and Don Fabrizio made a magnificent couple.

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Round the room smelling of vanilla…

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The ball went on for a long time still…

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7: Death of a Prince, July 1883

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He had arrived that morning, a few hours before…

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The first comfort he found at the hotel…

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There were his sons, of course.

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Below in the street, between the hotel and the sea…

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8: Relics, May 1910

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The conversation lasted an hour…

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When Monsignor entered, the chapel was lit…

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Carolina had gone off to pour out her rage…

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A maid entered…

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Senator Tassoni, who arrived soon after…

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The conversation continued for some time…

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The Cardinal of Palermo was a truly holy man…

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The carriages had not yet reached…

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