Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (toh-MAH-see dee lahm-pay-DEW-zah) was born into an aristocratic Sicilian family in 1896. He traveled widely and spent some years in London and Paris, but he lived most of his life in a decaying family palace in Palermo.
At his father’s behest, Lampedusa studied law and prepared to enter the diplomatic corps, but his university career was interrupted when he was called up for duty in the Italian army in 1915. He was captured and served time in an Austro-Hungarian prison camp, from which he eventually escaped. In 1932 he married the Latvian...
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