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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896-1957) was an Italian author, Duke of Palma, and last Prince of Lampedusa. He is most famous for his only novel, Il gattopardo, which was first published posthumously in 1958 and topped the bestseller lists internationally. Born to the Sicilian aristocracy at a time when his family's fortunes were in sharp decline, Lampedusa served as an artillery officer during World War I. A taciturn and solitary aristocrat, he devoted much of his time to books and was a prolific reader in several languages.
'Every once in a while, like certain golden moments of happiness, infinitely memorable, one stumbles on a book or writer, and the impact is like an indelible mark. Lampedusa's The Leopard, his only novel, and a masterpiece, is such a work' - Independent 'Perhaps the greatest novel of the century' - L. P. Hartley 'The poetry of Lampedusa's novel flows into the Sicilian countryside... a work of great artistry' - Peter Ackroyd 'It possesses the descriptive and analytical power not simply of one of the most beguiling 20th-century novels but one of the modern world's definitive political fictions' - Guardian
