In The Leopard, the famous novel by Giuseppe Tommasi di Lampedusa, Tancredi, nephew of Prince Fabrizio Salina, pronounces 'if we want everything to remain as it is, everything must change'. Tancredi is referring to the political situation in which the Sicilian aristocracy found itself during the transition in which it became part of the Kingdom of Italy…
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