The real lesson of the 'Leopard': when everything changes, it makes it worse

Netflix re-proposes Giuseppe Tomasi's masterpiece from Lampedusa, of which the 1963 film gave a partial reading. It is not a reflection on transformism, but on decadence. And on the impossibility of coming to terms with those who want to destroy an order to “remake” man. The tragic figure of Ludwig von Wittelsbach, or Ludwig II king of Bavaria, unable to adapt to his time and died by suicide, has obsessed the culture of the twentieth century. Th…