
David Gilmour's biography of Giuseppe di Lampedusa unearths the life story of the creator of The Leopard, one of the great novels of the twentieth century. A book whose imagery, once tasted, haunts the reader forever, The Leopard describes the golden era of nineteenth-century...



Giuseppe Tomasi, Prince of Lampedusa, was the author of a solitary masterpiece of 20th century fiction, The Leopard. The last of a long line of Sicilian aristocrats, he found himself in a modern world for which he was ill-suited and which could offer him no role to play. His...