Giuseppe Tomasi, eleventh Prince of Lampedusa and twelfth Duke of Palma, known as Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, was a Sicilian writer and the last of the Tomasi princes of Lampedusa before the family and its titles died out. Born in 1896 and dying in 1957, he is remembered chiefly for his only novel, The Leopard, which was published after his death. He is most famous for his only novel, Il Gattopardo, known in English as The Leopard, first published after his death in 1958 and set in his native Sicily during the Risorgimento.
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was a Sicilian writer, as well as the last generation of Tomasi Princes of Lampedusa before the family's and their titles' extinction (although his uncle Pietro Tomasi della Torretta, former Ambassador of Italy to the United
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Giuseppe Tomasi, 11th Prince of Lampedusa, 12th Duke of Palma, GE (23 December 1896
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23 July 1957), known as Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (Italian pronunciation: [dʒuˈzɛppe toˈmaːzi di lampeˈduːza]), was a Sicilian writer, as well as the last generation of Tomasi Princes of Lampedusa before the family's and their
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