I am grateful to Collins Harvill for permission to quote from Archibald Colquhoun’s fine translations of The Leopard and Two Stories and a Memory. Occasionally I have amended them, partly because (in the case of the memoir) he was given an imperfect text to work from, and partly because he himself made a number of minor mistakes in his translation. All other quotations from Lampedusa’s published and unpublished works, his letters, diaries and other documents, have been translated by me. So have all the quotations from other people, except in the cases where reference is made to an English source in the notes.