Tomasi di Lampedusa, the last in a line of Sicilian princes, drew inspiration from his own family’s decline to write this...... more

. Ultimately, he must decide to resist the forces of change or come to terms with them. Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, the last in a...... more

Leopard memorialises the faded splendour of the Sicilian aristocracy on the eve of revolution. The only novel of Lampedusa...... more

An NYRB Classics Original In the last two years of his life, the Sicilian aristocrat Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa wrote...... more

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa s brief but brilliant writing career lasted a mere two years before he succumbed to lung...... more