Read The Leopard
And so you want to read The Leopard, one of the most famous, most celebrated, most boring (according to high school Ellie) Italian classics. Yes, I changed my mind about the book, clearly, and boy do I have fifteen articles to help you along! What do we think? Was it overkill?
Page numbers are based on the newest Vintage Classics paperback edition. Enjoy!
start here!
Chapter I, pages 1 to 7, up to the line “anxious to show it had forgiven the silly interruption of a fine job of work.”
Chapter I, pages 7 to 18, up to the line “Towards dawn, however, the Princess had occasion to make the sign of the Cross.”
Chapter I, pages 18 to 34, up to the line “Salve regina, Mater misericordiae” at the end of the of the chapter.
Chapter II, pages 35 to 44, up to the line “and from that moment, invisibly, began the decline of his prestige.”
Chapter II, pages 45 to 55, up to the line “and with these words the haughty noble to whom rain would only be a personal nuisance showed himself a brother to his roughest peasants.”
Chapter II, pages 55 to 66, up to the line “He sidestepped a sword-waving urchin, carefully avoided a urinating mule, and reached the Sedàra’s door” at the end of the chapter.
Chapter III, pages 67 to 82, up to the line “By eight o’clock all was over, and nothing remained except darkness as on any other night, always.”
Chapter III, pages 83 to 101, up to the line “She was embroidering and, not hearing her father’s steps, did not even turn” at the end of the chapter.
Chapter IV, pages 102 to 128, up to the line “We’ve been bears here for long enough.”
Chapter IV, pages 128 to 143, up to the line “He looked out; in front of him, under the ashen light, the landscape lurched to and fro, irredeemable” at the end of the chapter.
Chapter V, pages 144 to 161, up to the line “or are you really in such a rush?” at the end of the chapter.
Chapter VI, pages 162 to 182, up to the line “When would she decide to give him an appointment less ephemeral, far from stumps and blood, in her own region of perennial certitude?” at the end of the chapter.
Chapter VII, pages 183 to 193, up to the line “The crashing of the sea subsided altogether” at the end of the chapter.
Chapter VIII, pages 194 to 212, up to the line “Then all found peace in a little heap of livid dust.” at the end of the book.
