Un voyage à Cythère. Una lettura baudelairiana de «Il Gattopardo»

The essay examines the intertextual links between Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s Gattopardo and Charles Baudelaire’s Les fleur du mal. Through an interpretation of Un voyage a Cythere, which is remembered by Don Fabrizio Salina, the main character of Tomasi’s novel, it is possible to find motifs common to both authors: aristocratic nostalgia, contempt for the bourgeoisie, sense of death. Another allusion to the poem is in the heart of the novel, confirming the relevance of Baudelairian poetry in the structure of Il Gattopardo.