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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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