The genus (historical novel), time (‘Risormento’) and the place (Sicily) are only the obvious points of contact between I viceré, the old and the young people and the gattopardo. Based on the theories of Bakhtin (the chronotop), Curtius (the topical), Hamon (the description) and Lotman (the art space), this work focuses on the spatial dimension in De Roberto, Pirandel and Tomasi di Lampedusa. The analysis of micro-fragments in which space is a key feature is presented in an interpretative framework that makes it possible to discover how macro-types of space are used: the duplication of domestic spaces, sometimes anthropomorphic, polises the visions of the real; sacred spaces are transformed into political spaces; natural landscapes, catalysts of sight and ideology, embody the historic turn.