Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (died 1957) was born in Palermo on 23 December 1896, heir to the titles of Prince of Lampedusa and Duke of Palma. An artillery officer during the First World War, he was taken prisoner and managed to escape. He then led a secluded life, made up of reading in several languages and literary exchanges with a small circle of friends and young people, and began his novel only in the mid-fifties. He died on 23 July 1957.

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• NovelThe LeopardIl GattopardoGiuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa · 1958Literature