The Last Leopard (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: David Gilmour
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1896-1957
- Setting: Sicily
- Principal Characters: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Beatrice Mastrogiovanni Tasca E Filangeri di Cuto, Alessandra (“Licy”) Wolff Tomasi di Lampedusa, Lucio Piccolo, Gioacchino (“Gio”) Lanza Tomasi
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Literature, Aristocracy or aristocrats, Tragedy, Italy or Italians, Psychotherapy or psychotherapists, Opera, operas, or operettas
- Locales: Sicily, Italy
Imagine a childhood of fading privilege, an adulthood of shattered glory, and final years of almost-realized fame; this, in essence, was the tragedy of Sicily’s most brilliant author, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Prince of Lampedusa, Duke of Palma. He died in 1957, impoverished and almost unknown, immediately before publication of Il Gattopardo (The Leopard, 1957), which made him, posthumously, Sicily’s most famous twentieth century author. David Gilmour’s study The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe di Lampedusa is a rich evocation of this brilliant man...
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