The Birth of the Leopard

The only novel written by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa The Leopard Il Gattopardo 1958 just like its screen adaptation by Luchino Visconti is considered a masterpiece This film tells about the life of Tomasi and his GermanBaltic wife Alexandra von WolffStomersee their unusual love story The chaos of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and World War II forced Alexandra to leave St Petersburg and later on the familys castle in Stāmeriena Latvia During the war in 1943 she fled to her husband in Palermo where she would live until the day she died