Love. Of course, love. Flames for a year, ashes for thirty. Auteur: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Quote More from Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa “Those were the best days in the life of Tancredi and Angelica, lives later to b…” “...waking at very early dawn amid all that sweat and stink, he had found himsel…” “Tancredi, in an attempt to link gallantry with greed, tried to imagine himself …” “To rage and mock is gentlemanly, to grumble and whine is not.”