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So I’ve been rereading Lampedusa’s “The Leopard” as I’m watching the Netflix series. For those who don’t know, it’s a novel and then film and now tv series about an aristocratic Sicilian family in the 19th century at the time of the unification of Italy. Anyway I thought the characters’ names are quite interesting.

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BOYS
Fabrizio
Tancredi
Paolo
Giovanni
Francesco
Calogero

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GIRLS
Maria Stella (or just Stella)
Concetta
Carolina
Caterina
Chiara
Angelica
Bastiana
Mariannina

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“Someone once said that it wasn’t so hard to do right; what was hard was to know what was right to do.”

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William X. Kienzle