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Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi di
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Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi di (1896–1957)

Italian aristocrat. He was the author of Il gattopardo/The Leopard (1958; translated into English 1960), a novel set in his native Sicily during the period following its annexation by Garibaldi in 1860. It chronicles the reactions of an aristocratic family to social and political upheavals.



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Morreale finds a similar style at work in the writers associated with the Sicilian school of Italian literature: Giovanni Verga, Luigi Pirandello, Giuseppe di Lampedusa, Elio Vittorini, and the contemporary Leonardo Sciascia.
Set on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa and based on one of the island's local legends, Emanuele Crialese's festival favorite, ``Respiro,'' is a fable brought to cinematic life.
In the novel The Leopard, Giuseppe di Lampedusa (1961) writes:
 
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