About the Author

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Duke of Palma and Prince of Lampedusa, was born in Palermo in 1896. Except for three articles that appeared in an Italian journal in 1926–27, Lampedusa was unpublished in his own lifetime. He began The Leopard, his only novel, in 1954, at the age of fifty-eight. When he died aged sixty, the completed manuscript of The Leopard had received only rejections from publishers.

Reviews

Letters from London and Europe usefully illuminates [Lampedusa’s] Anglophilia, shows him at epistolary play, and gets a little behind his perpetual guardedness.
*The Guardian*