"Like many of you I was completely swept away by the passage of Angelica and Tancredi's wanderings in the palace of Donnafugata.
It reminded me of the wanderings of Mary through Misselthwaite Manor, the huge empty mansion on the moor, in Frances Hodgson Burnett's THE SECRET GARDEN.
However, Lampedusa's description is by far the better one, especially with its eroticism."