Plaque to the Author of 'The Leopard'

Piazza dell'Independenza

Plaque to the Sicilian Writer Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

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On July 23rd 1957, the Sicilian writer Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa died in Rome. 

A year after his death his only novel Il Gattopardo (The Leopard) was published to great acclaim. 

In 2009, a plaque was erected outside the building in Piazza dell'Independenza in which Lampedusa died. He is described as the 'AUTORE DEL CELEBRE ROMANZO IL GATTOPARDO' (author of the celebrated novel 'The Leopard').  The plaque also quotes the most famous line in the novel: 'SE VOGLIAMO CHE TUTTO RIMANGA COME E BISOGNA CHE TUTTO CAMBI' ('If we want everything to remain as it is everything must change'). 

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