The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa PDF
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mm. AMifeof Giuseppe di Lampedusa_ e DAVID GILMOUR Giuseppe Tomasi, Prince of Lampedusa, died in 1957, the last member of a great Sicilian family which traced its ancestry to the early Byzantine Empire. He died childless, impoverished and unknown, leaving the manuscript of a novel and some stories. The following year that novel, The Leopard, was published to great acclaim in Italy and abroad, and is now recognized as one of the finest works of fiction of the twentieth century. For a quarter of a century Italian ‘and foreign scholars were denied access to Lampedusa’s papers by his widow. David Gilmour, however, has recently been allowed to work in Lampedusa’s last home in Palermo where he discovered numerous documents which had never been seen by anybody since Lampedusa himself. The many letters, diaries, notebooks and photographs (together with other papers which he dug out of the ruins of the Palazzo Lampedusa nearby) have enabled the author to construct a lucid and original biography. He describes Lampedusa’s life from his childhood during the Belle Epoque in Palermo, through the inter-war years of travel and marriage to a Baltic baroness, to his final brief period of fulfilment as a writer before dying of lung cancer at the age of sixty. AM ISBN 0-7043~-2564~0 780704°3256 San Lorenzo PALERMO @ Torretta ’ Trapani: z Bagheria Alcamo Ce Q Calatafimi ' Marsala Corleonee oO Castelvetrano i. ; Mazzara Santa Margherita di Belice Sciacca ° Agrigento e Palma d Mediterranean Sea B ra) a “SY Straits of Messina Milazzo } : Messina Capo d’Orlando : Regg Taormina e . Mt Etna e Enna. e/ Catania Itanissetta e@ -echiaro Augusta Siracusa Ragusa e Noto ® THE LAST LEOPARD THE LAST LEOPARD A Life of Giuseppe di Lampedusa DAVID GILMOUR QUARTET BOOKS London New York First published by Quartet Books Ltd 1988 A member of the Namara Group 27/29 Goodge Street, London W1P 1FD Copyright © David Gilmour 1988 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Gilmour, David, 1952— The last leopard: a life of Giuseppe di Lampedusa. 1. Fiction in Italian. Tomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe, 1896-1957 «title boo 1912 ISBN 0-7043-2564-0 Typeset by Reprotype Limited, Peterborough, Cambs Printed and bound by The Camelot Press Plc, Southampton
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