Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Sicilian Prince and writer (1896-1957)

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Lived 1896–1957, aged 61Italy

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1896–1957
Aged 61

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Updated 2026-05-29

Sicilian aristocrat who wrote The Leopard, a sweeping novel about nobility's decline in 1860s Sicily—published posthumously and became a literary sensation. Last of his line before the Tomasi titles extinct.

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Giuseppe Tomasi, 11th Prince of Lampedusa, 12th Duke of Palma, GE, known as Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, was a Sicilian writer, as well as the last generation of Tomasi Princes of Lampedusa before the family's and their titles' extinction.

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