The Professor and the Siren
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s groundbreaking mermaid. Howard Pyle, The Mermaid, 1910 By the side of the path around the circular, volcanic crater of Lake Pergusa, near the town of Enna in the center...
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Ruth Gordon in 1919. In The Leopard, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa refers to “that most absurd of emotions, retrospective jealousy.” He’s talking about sexual jealousy; in the way of new lovers, a young...
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