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Added by Media Influence Map · 5 October 2026

The influence
Il Gattopardo The Leopard
Book · 1958

The work it shaped
Il Gattopardo The Leopard
Film · 1963
Luchino Visconti's film adapts Lampedusa's novel about a Sicilian prince during the unification of Italy, ending on the long ball that closes the old world, and omits the novel's final chapters.
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