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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