{"id":171,"date":"2018-03-22T15:25:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T19:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/?p=171"},"modified":"2018-03-22T15:25:41","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T19:25:41","slug":"lampedusas-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/sicily\/lampedusas-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Lampedusa\u2019s Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/200\/2018\/03\/lampedusa.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[171]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-172\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/200\/2018\/03\/lampedusa-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"369\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/200\/2018\/03\/lampedusa-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/200\/2018\/03\/lampedusa-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/200\/2018\/03\/lampedusa-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 369px) 100vw, 369px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa\u2019s library was beautiful\u2014as was the rest of the mansion, which was quite aware of its own grandiosity. Three college girls from the UK on an internship program in Sicily gave us a tour of the house, giving a little background on certain elements of the house or portraits that featured descendants of Lampedusa, including the duchess, who still lives in the house and offers cooking lessons for nearly 200 euro. WWII bombing destroyed some of the house, but most of it was preserved (aside from the duchess\u2019s private quarters). This whole idea of preservation takes on an ironic tone when considering <em>Il Gattopardo\u2014<\/em>Lampedusa wrote about the dying aristocracy at the end of the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century, yet his ancestors are trying to hold on to the already-gone aristocracy years later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa\u2019s library was beautiful\u2014as was the rest of the mansion, which was quite aware of its own grandiosity. Three college girls from the UK on an internship program in Sicily gave us a tour of the house, giving a little background on certain elements of the house or portraits that featured descendants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":634,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sicily","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/634"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}