Leopard Don Fabrizios Change During the 19th Century
Don Fabrizio’s Change During the 19th Century Don Fabrizio Salina was a prince of Sicily during the 19th century and is a principle character in The Leopard, a historical novel by Giuseppe di Lampedusa. This novel details the on goings in Sicily during the political changing. ... One of the practices Don Fabrizio wanted to hold onto was his family’s name and power that was associated with the family name, as well as not mixing blood because it would diminish the noble’s authority and prestige. Don Fabrizio did not agree or like the new government’s way of choosing a man for office. ... When thinking about the possible union between Tancredi and Concetta, Don Fabrizio thinks and realizes, “Tancredi, he considered, had a great future; he would be the standard-bearer of a counterattack which the nobility, under new trappings, could launch against the new social State. ... Don Fabrizio also did not hold the peasants in high esteem. As did most nobles of the time, Don Fabrizio did not think peasants were sophisticated or smart enough to be in the company of nobles. An example that shows this from Don Fabrizio’s thoughts (as well as the thoughts implanted in Don Fabrizio’s head by the Mayor of Donnafugata) concerns the Mayor’s wife, who was a peasant: “The Archpriest was a bachelor by profession and the notary one by vocation, so that for them the question of consorts did not arise; the invitation to the Mayor was rather languidly extended to his wife; she was some peasant woman, of great beauty, but considered by her own husband as quite unpresentable in public for a number of reasons; thus no one was surprised at his saying that she was indisposed; but great was the amazement when he added, “If Your Excellencies will allow I’ll bring along my daughter Angelica, who’s been talking for the past month of nothing but her longing to be presented to you now that she’s grown up” (Lampedusa, pg.