
In 1957, Giuseppe Tomasi, the last Prince of the Sicilian Lampedusa family, died impoverished and unknown, leaving behind the manuscript of a book he had recently finished. The following year the book, The Leopard, was published in Italy and has since been widely translated...



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...