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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Giuseppe Tomasi was born in 1896 into Sicilian nobility, the 11th Prince of Lampedusa, and grew up solitary by preference: "I was a boy who liked solitude, who preferred the company of things to that of people." Reserved, misanthropic, he spent his days reading and meditating — by 1954 he claimed ten of his sixteen waking hours were passed alone. He worked on Il Gattopardo in private, setting it in his native Sicily during the Risorgimento, but no publisher would take it. He died in July 1957. The novel appeared posthumously in 1958, became a sensation, and the Tomasi line — titles and all — ended with his generation.