This family of Sicilians is forced to adjust to new social norms when Garibaldi's troops begin to unify Italy in the 1860s, and they do it grudgingly. Proud but pragmatic Prince Fabrizio Salina permits his war hero nephew to marry Angelica, the daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don Calogero, so that the family's accustomed level of comfort and political clout will not be jeopardized.
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This family of Sicilians is forced to adjust to new social norms when Garibaldi's troops begin to unify Italy in the 1860s, and they do it grudgingly. Proud but pragmatic Prince Fabrizio Salina permits his war hero nephew to marry Angelica, the daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don Calogero, so that the family's accustomed level of comfort and political clout will not be jeopardized.
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